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Cover -- The Contradictory Christ -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Preface -- Aim -- Previous Work -- Future Work -- Hope -- Target Audience -- Conventions Governing Style -- An Unsolicited Note On Reading The Book -- Acknowledgments -- Contents -- 1: Contradictory Christology -- 1.1 The Longstanding Christological Quest -- 1.2 The Central Thesis: Christ The Contradiction -- 1.3 Terminology: Contradiction And Contradictory Beings -- 1.4 The Rarity Of True Contradictory Theories -- 1.5 Summary And Looking Forward -- 2: Logic And Its Possibilities -- 2.1 Entailment Relations In General 2.1.1 Very Big Picture -- 2.1.2 Languages And Their Salient Parts -- 2.1.2.1 Alphabet And Other Bits -- 2.1.2.2 Singular Terms -- 2.1.2.3 Predicates -- 2.1.2.4 Sentences: Atomic -- 2.1.3 Meanings: Denotation, True-of And False-of Relations -- 2.1.3.1 Singular Terms: Denotation -- 2.1.3.2 Predicates: True-of And False-of -- 2.1.4 Meanings Of (atomic) Sentences: Truth And Falsity Conditions -- 2.1.5 Entailment Relations On A Language -- 2.2 The Role Of Logic In General And In Theology -- 2.2.1 Theology And Consequence -- 2.2.2 Consequence And (formal) Logical Consequence 2.2.3 Logic And Standard Logic -- 2.3 Logic: Subclassical -- 2.3.1 Formal Language -- 2.3.1.1 Syntax -- 2.3.1.2 Semantics: Towards Truth And Falsity Conditions -- 2.3.1.3 Atomic Sentences -- 2.3.1.4 Semantic Values For Molecular Sentences -- 2.4 Logic: The Target Consequence Relation -- 2.5 Salient Logical (in-) Validities -- 2.6 Chief Virtues Of This Account Of Logic -- 3: Seven Virtues -- 3.1 Simplicity -- 3.2 Avoiding Ad Hoc Changes In Meaning -- 3.3 Metaphysical Neutrality -- 3.4 Preserving The Principal Subject Of Christology -- 3.5 Balancing 'from Above' And 'from Below' 3.6 Preserving The Mystery Of The Hypostatic Union -- 3.7 Christology And The Obvious Need For Faith -- 3.8 Closing Big-picture Remarks -- 4: Some Objections -- 4.1 Methodological Issues -- 4.1.1 Your Theology Is False! -- 4.1.2 Truth Requires Coherenc