Creator est Creatura: Luthers Christologie als Lehre von der Idiomenkommunikation [The Creator is a Creature: Luther's Christology as Doctrine of the Communication of Properties]– Edited by Oswald Bayer and Benjamin Gleede
✍ Scribed by Piotr J. Malysz
- Book ID
- 111006997
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons
- Year
- 2009
- Weight
- 164 KB
- Volume
- 16
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 1350-7303
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✦ Synopsis
The six essays contained in this volume collectively offer a picture of Martin Luther's Christology that takes issue with its customary presentation as a diachronic series of contingent responses to crises and controversies. Luther's Christological thought did, to be sure, become more self-aware and more precise, as he was compelled to respond to the various challenges. But, as these essays so admirably demonstrate, underlying Luther's variegated christological reflection was a fundamental and uncompromised insistence on the concreteness of the exchange of properties between Christ's two natures. As Luther saw it, only when taken as concrete -that is, as reciprocally holding nothing back -can the togetherness of the natures in Christ's person give adequate expression to his identity as Savior, who as a person is never, not even conceptually, to be separated from his work.Contrary to what the volume's title might indicate, the essays do not restrict themselves to an analysis of Luther's christology. They also situate the reformer's particular interpretation of the communicatio idiomatum more broadly within the Lutheran tradition. And, moving even further afield, they seek to uncover this interpretation's forerunners in the early church, as well as proposing that Luther's insights constitute a viable, though neglected, alternative to the speculative or overpsychologized modern depictions of Christ.The opening essay, 'The Word Became Flesh: Luther's Christology as Doctrine of the Communication of Properties' by Oswald Bayer, introduces the central themes of the entire volume. It situates the project of recovering Luther's christological metaphysic against the backdrop of the early-twentieth-century Luther renaissance, which severed the reformer's theology of the cross from the underlying ontology and then distilled this theologia crucis into an abstract