The Incarnation

Stephen T. Davis is Professor of the Philosophy of Religion, Claremont McKenna College, California.Daniel Kendall, SJ is Professor of Theology, University of San Francisco.Gerald O'Collins, SJ is Professor of Systematic and Fundamental Theology, Gregorian University, Rome.

• 1. The Incarnation; Critical Issues ; 2. Theophany, Anthromorphism, and the Imago Dei: Some Observations about the incarnation in the Light of the Old Testament ; 3. Jesus' Self-Understanding ; 4. St Paul and the Incarnation: A Reassessment of the Data ; 5. Romans 8: the Incarnation and its Redemptive Impact ; 6. The Incarnation: The Jewish Milieu ; 7. What Does Chalcedon Solve and What Does it Not?: Some Reflections on the Status and Meaning of the chalcedonian 'Definition' ; 8. Nature and the 'Mode of Union': Late Patristic Models for the Personal Unity of Christ ; 9. Aquinas' Metaphysics of the Incarnation ; 10. Was Jesus Mad, Bad, or God? ; 11. The Self-Emptying of Love: Some Thoughts on Kenotic Christology ; 12. A Timeless God Incarnate ; 13. A Word Made Flesh: Incarnational Language and the Writer ; 14. The Incarnation and Virtue Ethics ; 15. The Incarnation in Twentieth-Century Art ; 16. The Incarnation in Selected Christmas Sermons

Review from previous edition The first section of this collection contains three remarkable essays which show that dialogue between systematic theologians and biblical scholars is possible and important.