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Unspeakable Cults - An Essay in Christology (Hardcover)
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Unspeakable Cults - An Essay in Christology (Hardcover)
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The incarnation of God in Jesus poses numerous challenges for the
historical consciousness. How does a particular human at a
particular time embody the eternal? And how does that embodiment
work itself out in faith across the centuries? A gulf would appear
to stand between what Christians say about Christ and the
historical event of the man Jesus; indeed, the true reality of the
incarnation seems unspeakable. Unspeakable Cults considers the
nature and potential resolution of the conflict between the
relativistic assumptions of the modern historical worldview and the
classical Christian assertion of the absolute status of Jesus of
Nazareth as God's saving incarnation in history. Paul DeHart
contends that an understanding of Jesus' history is possible,
proposing a model of the relation of divine causation to historical
causation that allows the affirmation of Jesus' divinity without a
miraculous rupture of the world's immanent causal patterns. The
book first identifies classic articulations of the conflict in
nineteenth-century German thought (Troeltsch, D. F. Strauss), and
then draws on the history of religions to suggest possible relevant
motifs in first-century culture that mitigate the axiomatic
"tension" between Jesus' humanity and his deified status in early
Christianity. With a creative appropriation of Thomas Aquinas, the
heart of the argument aims to understand the eternal Word's
presence in a human being as a thoroughly cultural event, but one
dependent on divine power conceived as quasi-formal rather than
merely efficient cause. Such an approach undercuts opposition
between the absoluteness of Jesus and the relativism of
historicism. DeHart ultimately confronts the resulting challenges
to traditional belief resulting from this proposed model, including
the irremediable ambiguity of Jesus' "miraculous" performances and
the constitutively unfinished nature of his human identity. Rather
than treating these as scandals of modern consciousness,
Unspeakable Cults vindicates them as necessary aspects of the
"offense" perennially confronting faith in the incarnation.
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