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incarnation

Did Jesus Lack Empathy?

February 10, 2022 by Randal

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Filed Under: The Tentative Apologist Tagged With: christology, incarnation, Jesus

The Best Christmas Pageant Ever

December 25, 2020 by Randal

Merry Christmas, everyone! Here is the introduction to the chapter on incarnation in my 2008 book Faith Lacking Understanding. The excerpt invites Christians to rediscover the magic and mystery of incarnation by way of a celebrated children’s story. In her delightful children’s classic The Best Christmas Pageant Ever Barbara Robinson tells the story of how the […]

Filed Under: The Tentative Apologist Tagged With: Christmas, Faith lacking understanding, incarnation

Is Jesus Human and Not Divine? A Review

July 8, 2020 by Randal

Dale Tuggy and Christopher M. Date, Is Jesus Human and Not Divine? A Debate. Essential Christian Debates. Apollo, PA: Areopagus, 2020. As the old joke goes, after the Sunday school teacher asks, “Okay children, who left the cap off the glue?” the answer comes back in unison: “Jesus!” You get it, right? Jesus is always the […]

Filed Under: The Tentative Apologist Tagged With: Chris Date, christology, Dale Tuggy, debate, incarnation, review, theology

God Became Meat: A Devotional Reflection

March 4, 2018 by Randal Rauser

I recently wrote a few devotionals for a forthcoming publication and I thought I would publish them at my blog as well. Here is the first. John 1:14 “The Word became flesh and made his dwelling among us.” Every December, Christians around the world gather to watch the annual Christmas pageant. But for many of us, […]

Filed Under: The Tentative Apologist Tagged With: christology, devotional, incarnation, reflection

Did Jesus know absolutely everything?

November 3, 2015 by Randal

Don’t ever say I shy away from the hard questions. Here’s a slide from my upcoming lecture on fifth century Christology:

Filed Under: The Tentative Apologist Tagged With: christology, incarnation, Jesus Christ, omniscience

Human value revisited: Could divine attachment contribute to human value?

September 7, 2015 by Randal

In “Human value and the atonement: A Reply to Andy Bannister” I provided a critique of Bannister’s claim that human value is “determined by what God was willing to pay for you in the life of Jesus Christ, his Son.” I noted that my fifth and final objection was decisive: “Bannister’s theory seems to have […]

Filed Under: The Tentative Apologist Tagged With: Andy Bannister, atonement, God, incarnation, value

11. The 59-Second Apologist: Is the incarnation a contradiction?

June 23, 2015 by Randal

John 1:14 declares that “the Word became flesh and dwelt among us.” But how can it be that the eternal, infinite divine Word became a temporal, finite human being?  In this episode of the 59-Second Apologist we seek to bring some illumination to this perennial theological question. For further discussion of the account provided here, see chapter four of […]

Filed Under: Podcast-59 Second Apologist, The Tentative Apologist Tagged With: christology, incarnation, logic, theology

8. A conversation on the Incarnate God with theologian Oliver Crisp

July 15, 2013 by Randal

In May, 2013 I attended the Logos Conference at Notre Dame University. While there, I had an opportunity to sit down with my personal friend Oliver Crisp, Professor of Systematic Theology at Fuller Theological Seminary in Pasadena, California. I got to know Oliver fourteen years ago when we were both doing PhDs at King’s College, London. Since […]

Filed Under: Podcast, Podcast-The Tentative Apologist, The Tentative Apologist Tagged With: christology, incarnation, interview, Oliver Crisp, philosophical theology

Reformed Rap comes of Age: Shai Linne on The Hypostatic Union

January 28, 2013 by Randal

I am not a big fan of rap, hip hop, or any combination thereof. But I’ve long respected the work of Shai Linne. This brother backs more theology into a four minute rap song than most evangelical pastors fit into a four week sermon series. His latest single, called “The Hypostatic Union,” includes clever and theologically loaded lyrics […]

Filed Under: The Tentative Apologist Tagged With: christology, hypostatic union, incarnation, rap, Shai Linne

God’s suffering: Meditations on Elie Wiesel

November 30, 2012 by Randal

Elie Wiesel escaped the concentration camps of Nazi Germany and then wrote a bestselling, critically acclaimed book describing his harrowing experiences (Night). So you might think he knows something about God and suffering. For this reason I paid close attention when Wiesel turned to address the problem of suffering in his 1995 book All Rivers Run to […]

Filed Under: The Tentative Apologist Tagged With: Elie Wiesel, incarnation, problem of evil, theodicy

A breathtakingly larger canvas: The Cross in cosmic perspective

November 8, 2012 by Randal

In my last article I pointed out that the New Testament (Paul specifically) seems to view the atonement as having truly cosmic implications. Thomas Torrance describes the cross as a “world altar” and says it “has cosmic significance in that it claims and suborns the world for its redeeming purpose.” (Atonement: The Person and Work […]

Filed Under: The Tentative Apologist Tagged With: atonement, christology, cross, incarnation, science, theology

The Nebular Incarnation Thought Experiment: Truly out of this world

March 8, 2012 by Randal

Multiple Incarnations A couple weeks ago I discussed, albeit somewhat briefly, the concept of multiple incarnations according to which God the Son (or another person of the Trinity) would incarnate in multiple persons rather than just Jesus of Nazareth. The idea was taken by John Hick to apply to multiple incarnations on earth, but the way […]

Filed Under: The Tentative Apologist Tagged With: incarnation, logic, nebula, transitivity of identity

Should you call out Gouranga? One-time Christian philosopher Michael Sudduth thinks so

February 15, 2012 by Randal

A couple weeks ago I was checking in to “Trinities” (a great blog run by several very smart philosophers with good senses of humor) when I read an article by Dale Tuggy commenting on the conversion of Christian philosopher Michael Sudduth to … Hinduism, specifically Vaishnava Vedanta. What?!! I took Frank Beckwith’s conversion to Catholicism […]

Filed Under: The Tentative Apologist Tagged With: Dale Tuggy, incarnation, John Hick, Krishna, Michael Sudduth, Trinities, Vaishnava Vedanta

The fallible Jesus?

January 27, 2012 by Randal

The question of the knowledge (and ignorance) of Jess exploded back onto the blog this week when Andy Derksen commented the following in my article “How many wrong beliefs did Jesus have?” unless Jesus was in fact wrong about his very identity and mission(!) … whatever he actually *taught* as recorded in the gospels–including statements that have […]

Filed Under: The Tentative Apologist Tagged With: christology, incarnation, Jesus, omniscience

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