The Practical Expression of the Church

The Practical Expression of the Church
Author: Witness Lee
Publisher: Living Stream Ministry
Total Pages: 188
Release: 2016-03-01
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 073637616X

Witness Lee speaks of the church in The Practical Expression of the Church, not only from the viewpoint of God’s eternal purpose, which is the church triumphant and universal, but also from the viewpoint of the believers’ experience and enjoyment of the riches of Christ, which produces a local expression of the church, an expression that displays the oneness of the Body of Christ and brings in God’s commanded blessing (Psalm 133).

The Doctrine of the Incarnation Opened

The Doctrine of the Incarnation Opened
Author: Edward Irving
Publisher: Lutterworth Press
Total Pages: 259
Release: 2023-08-31
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 0718896661

In The Doctrine of the Incarnation Opened, an abridgement of Edward Irving's (1792-1834) sermons, readers have fresh access to and insightful comment on Irving's distinctive views regarding the person of Jesus Christ. The book follows the sermons in a logical progression: the goal and method of the incarnation, the events of the incarnate life and the death of Christ, and the effects of the incarnation. For Irving, God the Son's assumption of a fallen human nature was of the upmost importance, and garnered most attention. This view also dominates Irving's soteriology, according to which the incarnate Son takes over the human will, reforming the very origin of sin, and offers obedience to the Father as a sacrifice of praise. Irving's radical Christological thought informed the thinking of notable theologians such as John McLeod Campbell, Thomas F. Torrance, and Karl Barth. With an introduction by G. McFarlane and a critical response by J.D. Cameron, The Doctrine of the Incarnation Opened provides an accessible format to engage with Irving's influential thoughts and ideas.

The Resurrection of God Incarnate

The Resurrection of God Incarnate
Author: Richard Swinburne
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 233
Release: 2003-01-09
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 0199257450

Whether or not Jesus rose bodily from the dead is perhaps the most critical and contentious issue in the study of Christianity. Rather than depend on statements in the New Testament, Swinburne argues for a wider approach.

The Incarnation

The Incarnation
Author: Timothy J. Pawl
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 134
Release: 2020-10-22
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 1108606261

The Doctrine of the Incarnation, that Jesus Christ was both truly God and truly human, is the foundation and cornerstone of traditional Christian theism. And yet, this traditional teaching appears to verge on incoherence. How can one person be both God, having all the perfections of divinity, and human, having all the limitations of humanity? This is the fundamental philosophical problem of the incarnation. Perhaps a solution is found in an analysis of what the traditional teaching meant by person, divinity, and humanity, or in understanding how divinity and humanity were united in a single person? This Element presents that traditional teaching, then returns to the incoherence problem to showcase various solutions that have been offered to it.