Communicatio Idiomatum: Reformation Christological Debates

by Richard Cross

This study offers a radical reinterpretation of the sixteenth-century Christological debates between Lutheran and Reformed theologians on the ascription of divine and human predicates to the person of the incarnate Son of God (the communicatio idiomatum). It does so by close attention to the arguments deployed by the protagonists in the discussion, and to the theologians' metaphysical and semantic assumptions, explicit and implicit. It traces the...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0198846975
• ISBN13: 9780198846970
• Release Date: December 2019
• Publisher: OUP Oxford
• Length: 320 Pages
• Weight: 1.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.1" x 9.3"