It is the fully human personal body, Jesus of Nazareth, and not a hybrid or semi-divine figure, in whom the divine Word is incarnate. To claim that his divinity is seen in a miraculous conception is not only to propose a divine strain within the human subject that constitutes his humanity in a different fashion from that of other humans, akin to the infusion of superhuman powers into a hero, but also to suppose that the divine Logos or principle took the place of some aspect of the human life of Jesus. It is to predicate divinity of the human subject instead of predicating humanity of the Son
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