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Systematic Theology
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The miracle of all miracles is the christological incarnation. It presents to us something that is far beyond the miraculous. That being a God compressing, squashing and squishing itself into a mortal human body!
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To illustrate the nature of this theandric reciprocity, Thomas invokes, as an example, the physical touch of Jesus’s hand: “he wrought divine things humanly, as when he healed the leper with a touch.” The touch of a human being is not in itself miraculous, and even in Jesus this human action is not humanly healing. The miraculous fact of the healing power of this human touch, rather, as Reginald Garrigou-Lagrange puts it, “proceeds from God as the principal cause and from Christ’s human nature a
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