Discerning God Incarnate

Gary Chartier is Distinguished Professor of Law and Business Ethics at La Sierra University, USA.

• AcknowledgmentsIntroductionA Web of BeliefThe Historical ConversationCritical OrthodoxyThe Plan of the Book1 Aut Deus Aut Malus HomoThe Argument in Different FormsJesus’s Expressed Self-UnderstandingMystical Oneness?Inadvertent Claims?Justified Lies?A Charlatan?Uncertainty?Need Belief That One Is Divine Imply Cognitive Impairment?Was Jesus Cognitively Impaired?The Nature of Jesus’s Self-ConceptionTesting the Trilemma Argument2 Resurrection, History, and Eternal SonshipJesus and His ResurrectionFrom Resurrection to IncarnationJesus’s AuthorityInterpreting the ResurrectionWas the Appearance to St. Paul Typical?Ps. 110 and the Acclamation of Jesus as LordProbing Pannenberg3 Resurrection and ExaltationBrown’s Case for Incarnational ChristologyPotential Difficulties with Brown’s Case for IncarnationAppraising Brown4 The Inner Logic of Christian DoctrineAuthority, Revelation, and DoctrineHistory and Divine ActionA Positive CaseWhy Incarnation Matters Morally and ReligiouslyIncarnation and the Integrity of Christian DoctrineInternal Support and External ApologeticsReflecting on Hebblethwaite5 Coincidence and ProbabilitySwinburne’s Probabilistic ArgumentEvaluating Swinburne’s ArgumentScrutinizing Swinburne6 Early High Christology, Divine Consciousness, Resurrection, and AbductionLoke’s Abductive Argument for the IncarnationPotential Challenges to Loke’s ApproachLooking at Loke7 Beyond Foundationalism and EvidentialismTranscending Simple DeductionConnecting the DotsEmbracing Reasons of the HeartOptions and ImplicationsConclusionWorks CitedIndex