Person of Christ – a Dogmatic, Scriptural and Historical Study by W.B. Pope

Today’s free book is a detailed study of the development of the doctrine of the person of Christ by William Burt Pope, the Fernley lecture of 1871. This title is in the public domain.

William Burt Pope [1822-1903], The Person of Christ: Dogmatic, Scriptural, Historical: the Fernley lecture of 1871: with two additional essays on the biblical and ecclesiastical development of the doctrine, and illustrative notes, 2nd edn. London: Wesleyan Conference Office, 1875. Hbk. pp.302. [Click here to visit the download page for this title]

Table of Contents

• Preface to the Second Edition
• The Person of Christ
  1. The Constitution of the Incarnate Person
     1. The Personality only Divine
     2. The Divine-human PERSON
     3. The Mystery of Glory of Christian Faith
  2. Relation of the Indivisible Person to Christian Theology
     1. Revelation
     2. Mediation
     3. Real Presence
     4. Personal Religion
     5. The Divine-human Head of the Church
• Scriptural Development
  1. The Old Testament
     1. The Future SEED as Human
     2. The Angel of Jehovah as Divine
     3. Divine-human in Later Old Testament
     4. The Divine-human Person subordinate as Mediator
     5. Measure of Old Testament Revelation
  2. Our Lord’s Testimony
     1. While on Earth – His Names
     2. Testimony from Heaven
  3. Apostolic Testimony
     1. The Evangelists
     2. The Apostles
• History of the Dogma
  1. Anti-Nicene Age
  2. The Christological Controversies
  3. Later Reproductions of Error
  4. Medieval Speculation
  5. The Reformation
  6. Modern Arianism and Socinianism
  7. Modern Development
• Notes
  1. Nature and Person
  2. The Son Incarnate
  3. Reasons for the Incarnation of the Soul
  4. The Son of God and the Son of Man
  5. Impersonality of the Human Nature
  6. St. John’s lncarnation-Phrases
  7. Apollinarianism in Modern Theology
  8. “The Exinanition”
  9. Depotentiation
  10. The Unchanged Manhood
  11. Biblical Theology
  12. Revelation
  13. Latitudinarian Theories
  14. Modern Theopaschitism
  15. The Sinlessness of Jesus
  16. The Sinlessness of Jesus
  17. The Exinanition Incomprehensible
  18. The Sacramental Presence
  19. The Real Presence by the Spirit
  20. The Controversy on the Eternal Sonship
  21. The Angel of Jehovah
  22. The Son of God in the Gospels
  23. The Son of Man in the Gospels
  24. St. Paul’s Testimony to the Two Natures

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