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 PAGE 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 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. St. John's Christology not an intellectual idiosyncrasy I. St. James's Epistle 1. presupposes the Christology of St. Paul II. St. Peter 1. leads his hearers up to understand Christ's 2. exhibits Christ's Godhead more fully, in his III. St. Jude's Epistle implies that Christ is God 1. form of his Christology compared with that prominent place given by him to the truths PAGE 279 281 285 290 294 297 305 306 306 310 2. Passages from St. Paul asserting the Divinity 3. A Divine Christ implied in the general teaching 4. And in some leading features of that teach- a. his doctrine of Faith B. his account of Regeneration y. his attitude towards the Judaizers V. Contrasts between the Apostles do but enhance the 364 Doctrine of Christ's Divinity strengthened by opposition. I. The ante-Nicene Church adored Christ 1. during His earthly Life 366 371 374 2. by the Church of the Apostles after His Characteristics of the Adoration of Christ in the Apostolic Age a. It was not combined with any worship 384 B. It was really the worship due to God y. It was nevertheless addressed to Christ's 385 386 Value of testimony of martyrs. expressed by hymns and doxologies II. The ante-Nicene Church spoke of Christ as Divine Similar testimony of theologians Their language not mere rhetoric'. Objection from doubtful statements of some ante 390 393 396 398 Answer: a. They had not grasped all the intellectual bearings of the faith. 8. They were anxious to put strongly for- y. The Church's real mind not doubtful III. The Homoousion a. not a development in the sense of an enlarge- B. necessary 1. in the Arian struggle 2. in our own times LECTURE VIII. PAGE 428 431 432 435 443 445 SOME CONSEQUENCES OF THE DOCTRINE of our lord'S DIVINITY. Rom. viii. 32. Theology must be, within limits, 'inferential'. What the doctrine of Christ's Divinity involves I. Conservative force of the doctrine 1. It protects the Idea of God in human thought, 452 a. which Deism cannot guard B. and which Pantheism destroys 2. It secures the true dignity of Man . II Illuminative force of the doctrine 452 456 459 a. It implies Christ's Infallibility as a Teacher. 461 Objections from certain texts 1. St. Luke ii. 52 considered 2. St. Mark xiii. 32 considered A single limitation of knowledge in Christ's 464 464 466 467 468 470 471 nor Nestorianism is consistent with the practical immensity is distinct from, and does not imply fal- Application to our Lord's sanction of the PAGE B. It explains the atoning virtue of Christ's death 480 7. It explains the supernatural power of the Sacraments d. It irradiates the meaning of Christ's kingly III. Ethical fruitfulness of the doctrine Objection—that a Divine Christ supplies no standard Answer-1. An approximate imitation of Christ 1. by the reality of His Mauhood 487 493 494 494 B. by the grace which flows from Him 495 2. Belief in Christ's Godhead has propa- a. Purity ism and naturalism--. 8. Humility y. Charity. 505 506 Recapitulation of the argument Faith in a Divine Christ, the strength of the Church under present dangers |