Concept
Incarnation
Overview
Incarnation literally means embodied in flesh or taking on flesh. It is the conception and the embodiment of a deity or spirit in some earthly form or an anthropomorphic form of a god. It is used to mean a god, deity, or Divine Being in human or animal form on Earth. The proper noun, Incarnation, refers to the union of divinity with humanity in Jesus Christ. In Islamic literature it is called "ḥulūl".
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Possible passages
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So we also make confession in our own form of faith, "I believe in the resurrection of the flesh," that is, that men shall rise again. So man uniformly throughout is called flesh, as he lives here in this state of being. The marks of the flesh are carefully recounted, one after another, in Paul's Epistle to the Galatians v., not only the gross carnal works, as lasciviousness, but also the highest and most reckless…
Martin Luther, The Epistles of St. Peter and St. Jude Preached and Explained
States what Incarnation is.
Now in God the divine essence is signified by way of a form, as above explained (A. 2), which, indeed, is simple and supremely one, as shown above (Q. 3, A. 7; Q. 11, A. 4). So, names which signify the divine essence in a substantive manner are predicated of the three persons in the singular, and not in the plural.
Aquinas Thomas, Summa Theologica, Part I
States what Incarnation is; the author is tied to Incarnation in the knowledge graph.
Now this statement does not express clearly what he means. However, let us scrutinize his extravagance. It is plain that this union took place either at the moment of conception or at the moment of resurrection. But if it happened at the moment of conception, Eutyches seems to think that even before conception He had human flesh, not taken from Mary but prepared in some other way, while the Virgin Mary was brought…
Boethius, The Theological Tractates and The Consolation of Philosophy
Close in meaning to Incarnation; the term itself is not named.
Philosophers who discussed Incarnation
Related ideas
- Avatar
- Ātman (Hinduism)
- Jesus
- 'Aql
- Greece
- Hinduism
- Nirvana (Buddhism)
- Vedas
- Judaism
- Menachem Mendel Schneerson
- Middle Ages
- Anthropomorphism
- Tawhid
- Vishnu
- Materialism
- Ganesha
- Rama
- Maimonides
- Messiah
- Manifestation of God (Baháʼí Faith)
- Brahman
- Bhagavad Gita
- Kalam
- Immanence
Place in the tradition
Part of Reformed epistemology.