RT Article
T1 The sacrifice of the Holy Christ in an unholy world
JF Scottish journal of theology
VO 76
IS 1
SP 1
OP 9
A1 Sonderegger, Katherine
LA English
PB Cambridge Univ. Press
YR 2023
UL https://www.ixtheo.de/Record/1837058865
AB In much modern christology, the notion of the incommensurate governs the relation of divine to human in Jesus Christ. In christologies influenced by Austin Farrer, and more distantly, by Nicholas of Cusa, the incommensurability of the infinite to the finite makes the idiom of paradox congenial, even necessary. Such demanding and unrelenting emphasis upon diastasis echoes a more ancient preoccupation with holiness in a fallen and unholy world. In Israel's scriptures, and in their lasting influence in the patristic era, the transcendent holiness of God threatens to prohibit the presence of the Holy One in the midst of unholy people. A record of this threat can be seen in the alien, fragmentary and unrecognisable Gospel portraits of the holy Christ to a sinful world. Yet the doctrine of the incarnation demands a divine presence to sinners and a sinful cosmos, a ‘making flesh’ as well as an ‘assuming flesh’. The concept and practice of sacrifice is proposed as a form of relation between deity and humanity such that the holy Christ can dwell and abide in an unholy world.
K1 Gospels
K1 Christology
K1 Holiness
K1 Hypostatic Union
K1 Incarnation
K1 Sacrifice
DO 10.1017/S0036930622000680