The Metaphysics of the Incarnation

1. Auflage 2011
ISBN: 978-0-19-958316-4
Verlag: OUP Oxford

Buch, Englisch, 262 Seiten, Format (B × H): 161 mm x 240 mm, Gewicht: 561 g

Provides a comprehensive and in-depth overview of the metaphysics of the incarnation, supplementing existing literature in philosophical theology, and tackling the metaphysical problems for the first time in volume form
Covers all of the major elements to the contemporary debate, and examines the strengths and weaknesses of the different viewpoints
Situates the arguments within the context of current study in personal identity and philosophy of mind

The growth of both philosophy of mind and cognitive science has developed our understanding of the human mind in ways that just a few decades ago were unthinkable. As ideas from philosophy of mind begin to cross over into philosophy of religion, there is renewed interest in questions about the divine mind, about how it might relate to a human body, and about whether incarnation itself might be articulated with the conceptual tools offered by the current research developments in the philosophy of mind. This book offers original essays by leading philosophers of religion representing these new approaches to theological problems such as incarnation.

The doctrine of incarnation - that Jesus Christ was God become human - has always been one of the most central and distinctive features of Christianity. Similar doctrines about divine humans can be found in other religions, from the claims to divinity made by ancient kings and emperors to the concept of avatars in Hinduism. But many people regard the notion that a human being could also be divine as unjustifiable or incoherent, and none of the many attempts to articulate it philosophically has earned general acceptance.

The authors explore, from a variety of different viewpoints, whether any metaphysically rigorous and coherent model of incarnation can be defended today. Their aim is to give readers a clearer sense not only of the problems and possible new solutions associated with incarnation itself, but of how the notion of incarnation may be fitted in to wider current debates in philosophy.

Zielgruppe

Students and Scholars of Philosophy of Religion; of Philosophy of Mind; of Christian Theology

Autoren/Hrsg.

Marmodoro, Anna

Hill, Jonathan

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Christentum, Christliche Theologie Systematische Theologie Fundamentaltheologie, Dogmatik, Christologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Christentum, Christliche Theologie Systematische Theologie Christliche Philosophie
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Metaphysik, Ontologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Religionsphilosophie, Philosophische Theologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Religionswissenschaft Religionswissenschaft Allgemein Religionsphilosophie, Philosophische Theologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1: Jonathan Hill: Introduction
2: Brian Leftow: The humanity of God
3: Oliver Crisp: Compositional christology without Nestorianism
4: Thomas Flint: Should concretists part with mereological models of the incarnation?
5: Thomas Senor: Drawing on many traditions: an ecumenical kenotic Christology
6: Stephen Davis: The metaphysics of kenosis
7: Michael Rea: Hylomorphism and the incarnation
8: Richard Swinburne: The coherence of the Chalcedonian Definition of the incarnation
9: Joseph Jedwab: The incarnation and unity of consciousness
10: Richard Cross: Vehicle externalism and the metaphysics of the incarnation: a medieval contribution
11: Anna Marmodoro: The extended mind in ontological entanglements
12: Robin Le Poidevin: Multiple incarnations and distributed persons

Über Autor(innen)

Marmodoro, Anna
Anna Marmodoro, Research Fellow in Philosophy, University of Oxford

Hill, Jonathan
Jonathan Hill, Research Assistant in Philosophy, University of Oxford

Edited by Anna Marmodoro, Research Fellow in Philosophy, University of Oxford, and Jonathan Hill, Research Assistant in Philosophy, University of Oxford

Contributors:
Oliver Crisp is Reader in Theology at the University of Bristol.
Richard Cross is Rev. John A. O'Brien Professor of Philosophy, University of Notre Dame.
Stephen Davis is Russell K. Pitzer is Professor of Philosophy at Claremont McKenna University.
Thomas Flint is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Notre Dame.
Jonathan Hill is a Research Assistant in Philosophy at the University of Oxford.
Joseph Jedwab is Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Kutztown University and is currently on a Research Fellowship at the University of Notre Dame.
Brian Leftow is Nolloth Professor of the Philosophy of the Christian Religion at the University of Oxford.
Robin Le Poidevin is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Leeds.
Anna Marmodoro is a Research Fellow in Philosophy at the University of Oxford.
Michael Rea is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Notre Dame.
Thomas Senor is Associate Professor of Philosophy at the University of Arkansas.
Richard Swinburne is Professor Emeritus, Faculty of Theology at the University of Oxford.