{"id":5082,"date":"2013-11-06T05:52:39","date_gmt":"2013-11-06T10:52:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/trinities.org\/blog\/?p=5082"},"modified":"2017-03-10T15:11:19","modified_gmt":"2017-03-10T20:11:19","slug":"crisp-on-incarnation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/trinities.org\/blog\/crisp-on-incarnation\/","title":{"rendered":"analytic theologian Oliver Crisp on the coherence of Incarnation"},"content":{"rendered":"

Somehow I missed this when it came out back in July. Our friend the Tentative Apologist Randal Rauser<\/a><\/strong> has a podcast<\/a> (itunes<\/a>) now, and he’s done a substantial, no-bs<\/a> interview of leading Reformed analytic theologian Oliver Crisp<\/a>, of Fuller Seminary.<\/p>\n

Listen to it at Randal’s blog here<\/a>.\"no<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

Crisp does a good job presenting and giving a basic defense of the coherence of the traditional catholic Incarnation theory<\/strong>, as articulated by recent philosophers like Richard Swinburne. He avoids as much as possible technical lingo like “hypostatic union” and “suppositum.” He takes what is standardly call the “two minds” approach.<\/p>\n

Rauser asks him some tough questions<\/strong>, including, wasn’t Jesus ignorant of some truths (so, he can’t be God, who knows all), and isn’t it wrong to say (as the catholic tradition requires) that Jesus was “man” but not a man, or in other words, that that Jesus is self, and human, but not a human self? And, shouldn’t we assume that Jesus, as a 1st c. Jewish boy, had quite a few false beliefs, like, ones that were assumed in that day?<\/p>\n

Give it a listen, and comment on the blog post page there. Do you find Crisp’s answers compelling?<\/strong> Why or why not?<\/p>\n

Rauser doesn’t tip his hand much (which is OK – he’s the interviewer<\/em>) – but I would guess he would take a pretty strong mysterian line, perhaps even eschewing a lot of the traditional language.<\/p>\n

I say Boo to mysterianism (sorry Randal), but Hooray to honest, clear, to the point theological conversation! Excellent job, gents.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Somehow I missed this when it came out back in July. Our friend the Tentative Apologist Randal Rauser has a podcast (itunes) now, and he’s done a substantial, no-bs interview of leading Reformed analytic theologian Oliver Crisp, of Fuller Seminary. Listen to it at Randal’s blog here. Crisp does a good job presenting and giving… Read More »analytic theologian Oliver Crisp on the coherence of Incarnation<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5083,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"neve_meta_sidebar":"","neve_meta_container":"","neve_meta_enable_content_width":"","neve_meta_content_width":0,"neve_meta_title_alignment":"","neve_meta_author_avatar":"","neve_post_elements_order":"","neve_meta_disable_header":"","neve_meta_disable_footer":"","neve_meta_disable_title":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[37,62,15,4,56,9,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5082","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-apologetics","category-calvinism","category-christology","category-heresy-orthodoxy","category-interview","category-philosophy","category-theologians"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/trinities.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5082","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/trinities.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/trinities.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trinities.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trinities.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5082"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/trinities.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5082\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38671,"href":"https:\/\/trinities.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5082\/revisions\/38671"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trinities.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5083"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/trinities.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5082"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trinities.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5082"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trinities.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5082"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}