Analysis of the Lectures. xxxvii PAGE II. It is a Life of the Eternal Word made flesh Doctrine of the Eternal Word in the Prologue . Manifestation of the Word, as possessing the Divine The Word identical with the only-begotten Son III. It is in doctrinal and moral unison with IV. Its Christology is in essential unison with that of the 1. their use of the title Son of God' 2. their account of Christ's Nativity 3. their report of His Doctrine and Work, and 4. of His eschatological discourses V. It incurs the objection that a God-Man is philosophi- This objection misapprehends the Scriptural and Ca- Mysteriousness of our composite nature illustrative of VI. St. John's writings oppose an insurmountable barrier to the Theory of a Deification by Enthusiasm LECTURE VI. OUR LORD'S DIVINITY AS TAUGHT BY ST. JAMES, ST. PETER, AND ST. PAUL. Gal. ii. 9. PAGR St. John's Christology not an intellectual idiosyncrasy 279 The Apostles present One Doctrine under various forms . 28) I. St. James's Epistle 1. presupposes the Christology of St. Paul 285 2. implies a high Christology by incidental expressions 290 II. St. Peter 1. leads his hearers up to understand Christ's true dignity, in his Missionary Sermons : 294 2. exhibits Christ's Godhead more fully, in his Epistles. 297 III. St. Jude's Epistle implies that Christ is God 305 IV. St. Paul 1. form of his Christology compared with that of St. John a. of our Lord's true Mediating Manhood 306 B. of the Unity of the Divine Essence 310 2. Passages from St. Paul asserting the Divinity of Christ in terms 314 3. A Divine Christ implied in the general teaching of St. Paul's Missionary Sermons . of St. Paul's Epistles ing, as in 345 B. his account of Regeneration 350 7. his attitude towards the Judaizers 354 V. Contrasts between the Apostles do but enhance the . 306 328 331 . Analysis of the Lectures. xxxix LECTURE VII. THE HOMOOUSION. Tit. i. 9. PAGE . Vitality of doctrines, how tested 360 Doctrine of Christ's Divinity strengthened by opposition . 364 Objections urged in modern times against the Homoousion 365 Real justification of the HomoousionI. The ante-Nicene Church adored Christ 366 Adoration of Jesus Christ 1. during His earthly Life 371 2. by the Church of the Apostles after His Ascension 374 Characteristics of the Adoration of Christ in the Apostolic Agea. It was not combined with any worship of creatures 384 B. It was really the worship due to God 385 y. It was nevertheless addressed to Christ's Manhood, as being united to His Deity 386 3. by the post-Apostolic Church, in sub-Apostolic Age 390 expressed by hymns and doxologies 393 and signally at Holy Communion assailed by Pagan sarcasms embodied in last words of martyrs inconsistently retained by Arians 411 and even by early Socinians 412 II. The ante-Nicene Church spoke of Christ as Divine 414 Value of testimony of martyrs. 414 Similar testimony of theologians 419 Their language not mere 'rhetoric'. 425 Objection from doubtful statements of some ante 387 388 . . 396 398 406 . . PAGE 428 431 432 . Answer : a. They had not grasped all the intellectual bearings of the faith. ward the Unity of God y. The Church's real mind not doubtful ment of the faith 2. in our own times 435 443 445 LECTURE VIII. . . 455 SOME CONSEQUENCES OF THE DOCTRINE OF OUR LORD'S DIVINITY, Rom. viii. 32. Theology must be, within limits, inferential'. 449 What the doctrine of Christ's Divinity involves 450 I. Conservative force of the doctrine1. It protects the Idea of God in human thought, 452 a. which Deism cannot guard 452 B. and which Pantheism destroys 2. It secures the true dignity of Man . 459 II Illuminative force of the doctrine a. It implies Christ's Infallibility as a Teacher . 461 Objections from certain texts 464 1. St. Luke ii. 52 considered 464 2. St. Mark xiii. 32 considered 466 A single limitation of knowledge in Christ's Human Soul apparently indicated 467 admitted by great Fathers 468 does not involve Agnoetism 470 nor Nestorianism 471 is consistent with the practical immensity of Christ's human knowledge 472 is distinct from, and does not imply fallibility, still less actual error 475 Application to our Lord's sanction of the . . Analysis of the Lectures. xli PAGE B. It explains the atoning virtue of Christ's death 480 7. It explains the supernatural power of the Sacraments 487 8. It irradiates the meaning of Christ's kingly office 493 [II. Ethical fruitfulness of the doctrine Objection—that a Divine Christ supplies no standard 494 Answer-1. An approximate imitation of Christ secured 494 495 2. Belief in Christ's Godhead has propa gated virtues, unattainable by pagan- 2. Purity 499 y. Charity 502 Recapitulation of the argument 505 Faith in a Divine Christ, the strength of the Church under present dangers Conclusion. 496 . 506 508 |
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