And Was Made Man - Mind, Metaphysics, and Incarnation

The idea that God became human in Christ seems paradoxical: surely nothing can be both divine and human? Robin Le Poidevin deploys the resources of contemporary metaphysics to show how even the apparently unchangeable aspects of the divine might be relinquished by God the Son.

List of contents

• Preface


• 1: The great mystery


• I. INCARNATIONAL MODELS


• 2: A composite Christ?


• 3: The divided mind


• 4: Kenosis


• II. 'IMPOSSIBLE' TRANSFORMATIONS


• 5: Divine embodiment


• 6: The problem of necessity


• 7: Christ and the ground of goodness


• 8: The times of God incarnate

About the author

Robin Le Poidevin is Professor of Metaphysics at the University of Leeds, where he has taught since 1989. He read Philosophy and Psychology at Oriel College, Oxford, and took his PhD at Emmanuel College, Cambridge. He was the 2007 Stanton Lecturer in Philosophy of Religion at the University of Cambridge, and the 2012 Alan Richardson Fellow in Theology at the University of Durham. He was co-editor of the Oxford Readings in Philosophy volume, The Philosophy of Time, and of the Routledge Companion to Metaphysics, and from 2010 to 2015 was Editor of Religious Studies.

Summary

The idea that God became human in Christ seems paradoxical: surely nothing can be both divine and human? Robin Le Poidevin deploys the resources of contemporary metaphysics to show how even the apparently unchangeable aspects of the divine might be relinquished by God the Son.

Additional text

Recommended. Upper-division undergraduates through faculty.

Product details

• Authors: Robin Le Poidevin, Robin (Professor of Metaphysics Le Poidevin
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 26.01.2023
• EAN: 9780199676576
• ISBN: 978-0-19-967657-6
• No. of pages: 256
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Philosophy > General, dictionaries; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Philosophy: general, reference works; PHILOSOPHY / Religious, PHILOSOPHY / Metaphysics, RELIGION / Philosophy, Philosophy: metaphysics & ontology, Nature & existence of God, Philosophy: metaphysics and ontology, Philosophy of religion, Nature and existence of God and of the Divine