The Mystery of God: Theology for Knowing the Unknowable by Christopher A. Hall & Steven D. Boyer

Author:Christopher A. Hall & Steven D. Boyer
Language: eng
Format: mobi, pdf
Tags: Religion
ISBN: 9780801027734
Publisher: Baker Books
Published: 2012-11-01T00:00:00+00:00

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TheMYSTERY of the INCARNATION

Who will measure you, great Sea who made himself small? We came to see you as God. Behold! You are a human being. We came to see you as a human being, and lo! the banner of your Godhead shines forth. Who can bear your transformations, O true One?

Ephrem the Syrian1 The Word was made flesh, but how he was made flesh, we do not know. The doctrine from God, I have; the science of it, I do not have. I know that the Word was made flesh; how it was done, I do not know.

Jerome2 There is . . . one and the same Christ, God and man, the same uncreated and created, the same unchangeable and incapable of suffering, the same acquainted by experience with both change and suffering, the same equal to the Father and inferior

1. Ephrem the Syrian, Hymns on the Nativity 13.7–9, cited in Ancient Christian Doctrine, vol. 2, We Believe in One Lord Jesus Christ, ed. John Anthony McGuckin (Downers Grove, IL: IVP Academic, 2009), 142.

2. Jerome, “Homily 87, On the Gospel of John 1:14,” in Homilies 60–96, 212.20, cited in Ancient Christian Commentary on Scripture: John 1–10 (New Testament IVa), ed. Joel C. Elowsky (Downers Grove, IL: InterVarsity, 2006), 40–41.

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