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Jesus Christ, Eternal God: Heavenly Flesh and the Metaphysics of Matter 1st Edition

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  • Hardcover: 368 pages
  • Publisher: Oxford University Press; 1 edition (December 16, 2011)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 0199827958
  • ISBN-13: 978-0199827954
  • Product Dimensions: 9.4 x 1.3 x 6.4 inches
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  • Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
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5.0 out of 5 starsNot a exactly a novel, but well-argued
By CougaNova on May 8, 2013
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Webb argues that God the Father has a body. To do this, he navigates through various Christologies throughout history. In doing this, he explores many controversies surrounding divine embodiment, and traces how divine unembodiment took hold (hint: Origen). He make special use of two schools of thought: Miaphysitism and Heavenly Flesh Christology, in this manner:

Miaphysitism: Jesus has only one nature. Human nature and and divine nature are united in Christ. Webb builds off this, to argue that spirit and matter are united in the body of Christ.

Heavenly Flesh Christology: Jesus had human form from the eternities, even before the incarnation. Webb builds off, actually, I can't remember how he draws a line from Christ's eternal body to the Father having a body.

He then moves from Aquinas to Barth's argument for Christ's body as the template from which every human body is created. Then to Mormonism (the last of which includes the idea that God is embodied).

In the beginning of the book, he dismantles arguments against God's having a body. At the end, he picks up Sarot's positive argument for God's having a body.

This is not an easy read. I had to tabulate the development of his arguments in order to follow. But it's so good I'm probably going to read it again.
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5.0 out of 5 starsPioneering
By C Pierce on April 6, 2015
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Professor Webb has produced a pioneering work of careful scholarship combined with equal access. His linkage of Barth with Mormon doctrine is a virtuosity tour de force.
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5.0 out of 5 starsHonest and objective theology
By A Keith Thompson on May 14, 2015
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Very thoughtful - and stunningly honest. For a Catholic theologian to credit the Mormon Prophet Joseph Smith as an authentic theological genius is "out there"!
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1.0 out of 5 starsAn untidy book
By Bradley Metzner on December 28, 2013
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S. Webb may have a doctorate in theology, but he seems oddly ignorance of the actual history and content of Christian doctrine and metaphysics. He makes assertions about such things as Trinitarian tradition that suggest he knows little about how and why it took the shape it did and how subsequent thinkers have developed it.

Worse, though, is that his arguments for a material God are just wildly illogical.
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