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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
The Apostles present One Doctrine under various forms.

I. St. James's Epistle

1. presupposes the Christology of St. Paul
2. implies a high Christology by incidental ex-
pressions

II. St. Peter

1. leads his hearers up to understand Christ's
true dignity, in his Missionary Sermons

2. exhibits Christ's Godhead more fully, in his
Epistles.

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III. St. Jude's Epistle implies that Christ is God
IV. St. Paul-

1. form of his Christology compared with that
of St. John

prominent place given by him to the truths
a. of our Lord's true Mediating Manhood
B. of the Unity of the Divine Essence

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2. Passages from St. Paul asserting the Divinity
of Christ in terms

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3. A Divine Christ implied in the general teaching
of St. Paul's Missionary Sermons
of St. Paul's Epistles

4. And in some leading features of that teach-
ing, as in

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his doctrine of Faith

B. his account of Regeneration

y. his attitude towards the Judaizers

V. Contrasts between the Apostles do but enhance the

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Doctrine of Christ's Divinity strengthened by opposition.
Objections urged in modern times against the Homoousion 365
Real justification of the Homoousion-

I. The ante-Nicene Church adored Christ
Adoration of Jesus Christ

1. during His earthly Life

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2. by the Church of the Apostles after His
Ascension

Characteristics of the Adoration of Christ in the

Apostolic Age

a. It was not combined with any worship
of creatures

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B. It was really the worship due to God

y. It was nevertheless addressed to Christ's
Manhood, as being united to His Deity

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Value of testimony of martyrs.

expressed by hymns and doxologies
and signally at Holy Communion
assailed by Pagan sarcasms
embodied in last words of martyrs
inconsistently retained by Arians
and even by early Socinians

II. The ante-Nicene Church spoke of Christ as Divine

Similar testimony of theologians

Their language not mere rhetoric'.

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Answer: a. They had not grasped all the intellectual

bearings of the faith.

8. They were anxious to put strongly for-
ward the Unity of God

y. The Church's real mind not doubtful

III. The Homoousion

a. not a development in the sense of an enlarge-
ment of the faith

B. necessary 1. in the Arian struggle

2. in our own times

LECTURE VIII.

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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

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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

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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

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nor Nestorianism

is consistent with the practical immensity
of Christ's human knowledge

is distinct from, and does not imply fal-
libility, still less actual error

Application to our Lord's sanction of the

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d. It irradiates the meaning of Christ's kingly

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III. Ethical fruitfulness of the doctrine

Objection—that a Divine Christ supplies no standard
for our imitation

Answer-1. An approximate imitation of Christ
secured

1. by the reality of His Mauhood

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B. by the grace which flows from Him
as God and Man

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2. Belief in Christ's Godhead has propa-
gated virtues, unattainable by pagan-

a. Purity

ism and naturalism--.

8. Humility

y. Charity.

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Recapitulation of the argument

Faith in a Divine Christ, the strength of the Church

under present dangers

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