Incarnation literally means embodied in flesh or taking on flesh. It refers to the conception and birth of a sentient being who is the material manifestation of an entity, God, spiritual or universal force whose original nature is immaterial. All Christians believe that Jesus of Nazareth is an incarnation of God. However, this was a theologically charged topic for the Early Church. Debate on this subject occurred during the first four centuries of Christianity, involving the extent of Jesus’s humanity versus his divinity.
I recall one of my theology professors using the phrase “already, but not yet,” to explain the concept of the kingdom of heaven on earth. For Christians this has already arrived in one important sense with the deep incarnation of the Christ.1 The God with skin on man from Galilee was all about the incoming […]
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