Once there is no need to negotiate a literal virginal conception, there need be no doubts or ambiguities about the full humanity of Jesus as a first-century Jewish male and, in thinking about that humanity assumed by the Word, no obstacles to applying our current theological understanding of what it means to be human and no need to be confined to traditional discussions about whether it was a human body or soul or a combination of the two that the Word assumed and whether we can only talk of the assumption of a human nature rather than a fully human subject or person.
