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Preface

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  04 April 2011

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A decade after the publication of The Myth of God Incarnate, I have decided to gather together my various articles and papers on Christology, for the most part written in response to that collection. Many people would no doubt say that the debate has now moved on from the doctrine of the Person of Christ to the doctrine of God. My colleague, Don Cupitt, one of the contributors to The Myth, has presented, in more recent years, a much more radical and far-reaching programme of ‘demythologising’ all God-talk and treating all religious language as simply expressive of certain moral and spiritual commitments alone. I am responding to this more radical view elsewhere; but I want to return here to Christology because in the earlier debate there can be discerned a much more pervasive trend in Christian theology than in the more recent extreme position of Don Cupitt. Non-incarnational Christology represents a much more serious threat to the faith of the Christian Church than does Cupitt's virtual atheism just because there is a greater likelihood of the former coming to prevail than the latter. Non-incarnational Christology is an attractive option for Christian believers who hold a strong belief in the reality of God, but who feel the force of the intellectual and moral objections to the idea of the divinity of Jesus Christ.

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The Incarnation
Collected Essays in Christology
, pp. vii - viii
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 1987

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  • Preface
  • Brian Hebblethwaite
  • Book: The Incarnation
  • Online publication: 04 April 2011
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511554650.001
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  • Preface
  • Brian Hebblethwaite
  • Book: The Incarnation
  • Online publication: 04 April 2011
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511554650.001
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  • Preface
  • Brian Hebblethwaite
  • Book: The Incarnation
  • Online publication: 04 April 2011
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511554650.001
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