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Published online by Cambridge University Press: 24 October 2008
According to the Council of Chalcedon, Jesus Christ is ‘…at once complete in Godhood and complete in manhood, truly God and truly man’. In his defence of Chalcedonian Christology, The Logic of God Incarnate, Thomas V. Morris adopts an Anselmian account of divinity. He maintains that an individual could exist necessarily and possess omnipotence, omniscience and goodness as essential properties, but nonetheless be fully human. Professor Morris thinks that the Anselmian account of deity is consistent with both the Chalcedonian Creed and the New Testament accounts of the incarnation.
1 ‘The Definition of Chalcedon, 451’, in Documents of the Christian Church ed. Bettenson, Henry (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1977), p. 51.Google Scholar
2 Morris, Thomas V., The Logic of God Incarnate (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1986).Google Scholar
3 See Matthew 4:1–11, Luke 4:1–13, and Hebrews 2:18.
4 All parenthetical page references are to The Logic of God Incarnate.
5 Wodehouse, P. G., Stiff Upper Lip Jeeves (New York: Harper and Row, 1990).Google Scholar
6 See the long quotation from p. 150.
7 Consistent with Professor Morris' view (see quotation from p. 124), I am counting wrongful intentions as immoral actions.
8 I wish to thank Mark Linville, Keith Yandell and Susan Werther for their comments and suggestions.
