Critical Thinking On An Analysis Of The Organic Relationship Between The Person And Work Of Christ

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Dorian, Daniel. “The Deity of Jesus in Synoptic gospels” Journal of Evangelical Theological Society (September 1994)333-350
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The article addresses the issue of self-consciousness of the Jesus. The article analyses the deity nature of Jesus Christ and his pres-existence. It seeks to answer the critics who claim that Jesus at no time claimed that he was a deity or that he pre-existed.
This article is relevant because it is useful in discussing the nature of Jesus Christ. The article is useful in discussing the human nature and the divine nature of Jesus Christ. It is the human nature and the divine nature of Christ that define the person of Christ. Understanding the person of Christ makes it easy to examine the unity that exists between the person of Christ and his works.
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The article states “First, by neglecting Jesus’ powerful and pervasive implicit claims to deity in the synoptics, evangelicals have given comfort to their theological adversaries and impoverished their own understanding of Jesus' person”.
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F.F. Bruce, “The Humanity of Jesus Christ, “Journal of the Christian Brethren Research Fellowship 24 (1973): 5-15.
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The article discusses the nature of Jesus Christ as both God and a human being. The nature of Jesus Christ is as God is given special attention in the article. The work of Jesus Christ as human being is also accorded attention.
The article is relevant because the work of Jesus Christ revolved around his person. His work at times showed that he was divine but on some occasions just revealed his human side. The connection between divinity and humanity is revealed in the article.
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The article states “It is fitting, then, that our Lord Jesus Christ, the Divine Word who became flesh, should in His one person be both altogether God and altogether man”.
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Holmes, Christopher. “The Person and Work of Christ Revisited: In Conversation with Karl Barth”, Anglican Theological Review 95(1): 37-55.
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The article relays the importance of drawing a distinction between the person of Jesus Christ and his work. The person of Christ and his work seem indistinguishable but it would be important to identify the relationship that exists. The article claims that that issues such as the works of Jesus Christ, his exaltations, humiliations and Christ as the Godhead can only be considered if the work and the person of Jesus Christ as put in the right place.
The article claims that the work Christ is absorbed into his person. It claims that Gods person does not exist in abstract but exists in totality with his work.
The article is relevant to this research because it addresses the issue of unity that exists between the person of Jesus Christ and the works of Christ. It attempts to place the work and the person of Christ in the proper place.
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The article states “were one to say that Christology is merely about his being, one would be shortchanging the very real sense in which “He exists in the totality of his mediating being and mediating work”
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Walker, Robert. “Atonement: The Person and Work of Christ” The Journal of Theological Studies 61(2) (2010): 876-879
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The articles analyses the work of Jesus Christ in reconciling God with his lost children. The article examines the person of Jesus and his incarnation. The article goes through the activities done by Jesus Christ and his divine nature. The work and his person have an organic relationship according to this article.
The article is relevant to the research topic because it emphasis on the nature and activities of Jesus. The atonement and the incarnation of Jesus which relays the very person and work of Jesus is discussed by the article.
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The article states that “Christ Himself all go together as step by step they illuminate each other in the process of comprehension”.
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Walvoord, John. “The Person of Christ Part II: The Person of the Incarnate Christ”, Bibliotheca sacra BSAC 117:466 (Apr 1960)
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The articles discuss the nature of Jesus Christ. It analyses the nature of the pre-incarnate Jesus Christ and the deity after incarnation. The article analyses what the doctrine of the person of Christ entails. The article explains the different capacities of Jesus Christ and how his work related to these capacities.
The article is relevant because it addresses the nature of the person of Christ which is an important aspect of this research topic. It describes the person and the work of Jesus Christ. The divine nature of Jesus is discussed in the article.
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The article states that “His person, however, prior to the incarnation did not include any human or angelic attributes”.