Divine holiness and the explanation of Christ's impeccability
Supposing that Christ is impeccable - that, necessarily, Christ does not sin - what explains that impeccability? While there have been multiple theories of how the operations of Christ's human will could be fully free while Christ's sinlessness is nevertheless guaranteed, such accounts can...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Cambridge Univ. Press
2020
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Religious studies
Year: 2021, Volume: 57, Issue: 4, Pages: 683-702 |
| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Jesus Christus
/ Inerrancy
/ Holiness of God
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| IxTheo Classification: | NBC Doctrine of God NBF Christology |
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| Summary: | Supposing that Christ is impeccable - that, necessarily, Christ does not sin - what explains that impeccability? While there have been multiple theories of how the operations of Christ's human will could be fully free while Christ's sinlessness is nevertheless guaranteed, such accounts cannot be exploited to provide the requisite explanation. And not all of the divine purposes sufficient for becoming incarnate would also be sufficient to explain why Christ must be sinless. We should instead explain Christ's impeccability normatively, in terms of the reasons that God has to respond appropriately to God's own perfection by refraining from taking on a human nature with a will that ever opposes the divine will. Such reasons are reasons of divine holiness. |
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| ISSN: | 1469-901X |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Religious studies
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1017/S0034412519000817 |