The Incarnation: Ecumenical Studies in the Nicene-Constantinopolitan Creed A.D. 381

  • Year 1981
  • Type Book
  • Genre christology
  • Tradition Reformed
  • Original language English

For For students of the creed and of patristic Christology; a symposium of scholarly papers.

Should I read this?

For the general reader
1 of 5 specialist interest
For the researcher
3 of 5 worth your time
Difficulty
4 of 5 hard

Ecumenical papers on the incarnation clauses of the creed of 381, edited and introduced by Torrance.

How it proceeds
  • Philosophic 4 of 5
  • Scriptural 3 of 5
  • Experiential 0 of 5
  • Sociological 1 of 5
  • Historical 4 of 5

Independent intensities, 0–5 — what the work is made of, not how good it is.

A volume of papers marking the sixteen-hundredth anniversary of the Council of Constantinople, edited by Torrance with a preface and introduction and published by the Handsel Press, Edinburgh, in 1981. The preface says the essays were first read at sessions of the Académie Internationale des Sciences Religieuses at Norwich in 1978 and, with one exception, published in Abba Salama in 1979. The contributors are Archbishop Methodios Fouyas on the homoousion, George D. Dragas on the eternal Son, Alasdair Heron on "homoousios with the Father", Daniel W. Hardy on Christ and creation, A. Houssiau on the virginal birth, James B. Torrance on the vicarious humanity of Christ, and J. H. Walgrave on incarnation and atonement.

Catalog IDW.2QHFAW.3

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