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My favourite Christmas book :)

"The Cosmic Christ" deals with the objection that Christianity is too small, or, "Did Jesus die for Klingons?" Morris argues that (i) most of these arguments ultimately boil down to "muh unevangelized" and (ii) his "two-mind" view accounts for multi-planetary incarnations. I found the thought experiment helpful. Morris's answer keeps the Son as the only redeemer.

Morris addresses the temptation & impeccability experienced by Christ. The chief argument is epistemic, not alethic, possibility of sin is sufficient for temptation. Paralleling Frankfurt cases, Morris argues that the human range of consciousness held a belief set which entailed the possibility of sin, yet, this was never genuinely open. I'm not sure about Morris's two-mind model that undergirds his analysis, though.

Morris provides a decent defense of the God of Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, and Anslem i.e. MGB = YHWH. Next, he moves on to demonstrate various kenotic views as unnecessary or ad hoc. Lastly, he introduces his "two minds of Christ" solution. He says it isn't Nestorian...we shall see...

A common feature of all members of a kind-nature is not an essential property. For example, all humans have been born on planet earth; however, not-being-born-on-earth is not a property that would disqualify a being from being human.

In Ch. 2, Morris addresses two alternatives to orthodoxy: the one-nature view as espoused by Ronald Leigh and the reduplactive properties view espoused by RT Herbert. The first fails on the grounds that it assumes objects cannot have kind-natures essentially. The second fails as it only works for representational properties.

Is HM Relton right that "The person of Christ is the bankruptcy of human logic"? Tom Morris argues that contemporary philosophical objections to the Incarnation fail. In ch. 1, Morris lays out the incoherence charge, surveys a few defensive maneuvers but dismisse them as ad hoc manipulation of the principle of indiscernible identicals. Morris hasn't started the positive case yet, but I have high expectations.

"The person of Christ is the bankruptcy of human logic". So says H.M. Relton, echoing the sentiment of all who have wrestled with Christianity's radical claim that the fullness of God became flesh. Morris argues that contemporary philosophical objections to the Incarnation fail. In ch. 1, Morris lays out the incoherence charge and surveys a few defensive maneuvers before dismissing them as ad hoc manipulation of the