9780198846970-0198846975-Communicatio Idiomatum: Reformation Christological Debates (Changing Paradigms in Historical and Systematic Theology)

Communicatio Idiomatum: Reformation Christological Debates (Changing Paradigms in Historical and Systematic Theology)

ISBN-13: 9780198846970
ISBN-10: 0198846975
Author: Richard Cross
Publication date: 2019
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Format: Hardcover 320 pages
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ISBN-13: 9780198846970
ISBN-10: 0198846975
Author: Richard Cross
Publication date: 2019
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Format: Hardcover 320 pages

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Communicatio Idiomatum: Reformation Christological Debates (Changing Paradigms in Historical and Systematic Theology) (ISBN-13: 9780198846970 and ISBN-10: 0198846975), written by authors Richard Cross, was published by Oxford University Press in 2019. With an overall rating of 4.5 stars, it's a notable title among other Christian Books & Bibles books. You can easily purchase or rent Communicatio Idiomatum: Reformation Christological Debates (Changing Paradigms in Historical and Systematic Theology) (Hardcover) from BooksRun, along with many other new and used Christian Books & Bibles books and textbooks. And, if you're looking to sell your copy, our current buyback offer is $3.03.

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This study offers a radical reinterpretation of the sixteenth-century Christological debates between Lutheran and Reformed theologians on the ascription of divine and human predicates to the person of the incarnate Son of God (the communicatio idiomatum). It does so by close attention to the arguments deployed by the protagonists in the discussion, and to the theologians' metaphysical and semantic assumptions, explicit and implicit. It traces the central contours of the Christological debates, from the discussion between Luther and Zwingli in the 1520s to the Colloquy of Montbeliard in 1586.

Richard Cross shows that Luther's Christology is thoroughly Medieval, and that innovations usually associated with Luther-in particular, that Christ's human nature comes to share in divine attributes-should be ascribed instead to his younger contemporary Johannes Brenz. The discussion is highly sensitive to the differences between the various Luther groups-followers of Brenz, and the different factions aligned in varying ways with Melanchthon-and to the differences between all of these and the Reformed theologians. By locating the Christological discussions in their immediate Medieval background, Cross also provides a comprehensive account of the continuities and discontinuities between the two eras. In these ways, it is shown that the standard interpretations of the Reformation debates on the matter are almost wholly mistaken.

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