God the Son Incarnate: The Doctrine of Christ (Foundations of Evangelical Theology)

by Stephen J. Wellum

Publisher:

Crossway

, 2016

Overview

Nothing is more important than what a person believes about Jesus Christ. To understand Christ correctly is to understand the very heart of God, Scripture, and the gospel. To get to the core of this belief, this latest volume in the Foundations of Evangelical Theology series lays out a systematic summary of Christology from philosophical, biblical, and historical perspectives—concluding that Jesus Christ is God the Son incarnate, both fully divine and fully human. Readers will learn to better know, love, trust, and obey Christ—unashamed to proclaim him as the only Lord and Savior.

Key Features

• Examines the concept of Christology from varying approaches
• Discusses Jesus Christ as God the Son Incarnate and what that means

Contents

• Part One: Epistemological Warrant for Christology Today
  • Contemporary Christology
  • “Biblical” Epistemology for Christology
• Part Two: Biblical Warrant for Christology Today
  • The Authoritative Structure of the Biblical Storyline
  • The Identity of Jesus from the Storyline of Scripture
  • The Deity of Christ: God the Son from Eternity
  • The Humanity of Christ: God the Son Incarnate
• Part Three: Ecclesiological Warrant for Christology Today
  • Ante-Nicene Christology: The Need for Orthodoxy
  • Christology from Nicaea to Chalcedon: The Emergence of Orthodoxy
  • Post-Chalcedonian Christology: The Establishment of Orthodoxy
• Part Four: A Warranted Christology for Today
  • Contemporary Challenges to Orthodox Christology: Kenoticism—A Middle Way?
  • Evangelical Christology and Kenotic Influences
  • Evangelicals and Kenotic Christologies: A “New” and “Better” Way?
  • Christological Formulation: The Orthodox Identity of Jesus Christ
  • Defending the Theology of God the Son Incarnate

Top Highlights

“‘Nobody can call himself a Christian who does not worship Jesus. To worship him, if he is not God, is idolatry; to withhold worship from him, if he is, is apostasy.’” (Page 195)

“First, the Son became a man to fulfill God’s original intention for humanity (see Heb. 2:5–9)” (Page 219)

“That conclusion, and the thesis of this entire volume, is that Jesus Christ is God the Son incarnate, one person subsisting in and acting through a fully divine nature and a fully human nature according to the attributes of each.” (Page 29)

“The outer life of Jesus demonstrates that he had a body and grew and developed like all other human beings.” (Page 211)

“Second, the Son became a man to bring many sons to glory (see Heb. 2:10–13)” (Page 220)

Praise for the Print Edition

Exploring our Lord’s person and work from a variety of angles, Wellum engages a wide range of issues and conversation partners. Consolidating the gains of evangelical Christological reflection, this volume makes gains of its own, particularly by wrestling clearly and carefully with contemporary trends in biblical studies as well as philosophical, systematic, and historical theology.

—Michael Horton, J. Gresham Machen Professor of Systematic Theology, Westminster Seminary California; author, Core Christianity: Finding Yourself in God’s Story

Product Details

• Title: God the Son Incarnate: The Doctrine of Christ
• Author: Stephen J. Wellum
• Series: Foundations of Evangelical Theology
• Publisher: Crossway
• Print Publication Date: 2016
• Logos Release Date: 2018
• Pages: 496
• Era: era:contemporary
• Language: English
• Resources: 1
• Format: Digital › Logos Research Edition
• Subject: Jesus Christ › Person and offices
• ISBNs: 9781581346473, 9781433517860, 9781433518102, 9781433517853, 1581346476, 1433517868, 1433518104, 143351785X
• Resource ID: LLS:GDSNNDCTRNCHRST
• Resource Type: Systematic Theology
• Metadata Last Updated: 2022-09-30T00:13:20Z

About Stephen J. Wellum

Dr. Stephen J. Wellum is Professor of Christian Theology at The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary and editor of Southern Baptist Journal of Theology. He received his PhD from Trinity Evangelical Divinity School and he is the author of numerous essays and articles. Dr. Wellum is the co-author with Peter J. Gentry of Kingdom through Covenant, 2nd edition (Crossway, 2012, 2018) and God’s Kingdom through God’s Covenants: A Concise Biblical Theology (Crossway, 2015); the author of God the Son Incarnate: The Doctrine of the Person of Christ (Crossway, 2016) and Christ Alone—The Uniqueness of Jesus as Savior (Zondervan, 2017); and the co-author of Christ from Beginning to End: How the Full Story of Scripture Reveals the Full Glory of Christ (Zondervan, 2018). Dr. Wellum was born and raised in Burlington, Ontario. He is married to Karen and together they have five children.

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