
In this ground-breaking study, Jc Beall shows that the fundamental "problem" of Christology is simple to see from the role that Christ occupies: the Christ figure is to have the divine and essentially limitless properties of the one and only God but Christ is equally to have the human, essentially limit-imposing properties involved in human nature, limits essentially involved in being human. The role that Christ occupies thereby appears to demand a contradiction: all of the limitlessness of God, and all of the limits of humans. This book lays out Beall's contradictory account of Jesus Christ — and thereby a contradictory Christian theology.
This book investigates whether the central tenets of Christology, specifically the union of divine limitlessness and human limitation, necessitate a logical contradiction. J. C. Beall, a philosopher known for his work on paraconsistent logic, applies formal analytic methods to traditional theological claims. He argues that the inherent tension between the nature of God and the nature of man in the person of Christ is best understood through a framework that accepts, rather than resolves, these contradictory properties.
What You Will Find
Scope Limits
Scholars in analytic theology recognize this work as a rigorous application of formal logic to traditional dogmatic problems. Readers frequently note the high level of technical density, as the text assumes a working knowledge of contemporary symbolic logic and analytic philosophy.
Page Count:
208
Publication Date:
2021-01-01
ISBN-10:
0192593528
ISBN-13:
9780192593528
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