Jesus Christ, Eternal God: Heavenly Flesh and the Metaphysics of Matter

by Stephen H. Webb

In this groundbreaking study, Stephen H. Webb offers a new theological understanding of the material and spiritual: that, far from being contradictory, they unite in the very stuff of the eternal Jesus Christ.

Accepting matter as a perfection (or predicate) of the divine requires a rethinking of the immateriality of God, the doctrine of creation out of nothing, the Chalcedonian formula of the person of Christ, and the analogical nature of...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0199827958
• ISBN13: 9780199827954
• Release Date: December 2011
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Length: 356 Pages
• Weight: 1.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.5" x 9.3"