Book contents
- The Cambridge Companion to Christology
- Cambridge Companions to Religion
- The Cambridge Companion to Christology
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Contributors
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- Part I The Christological Sources
- Part II The Christological Reception
- 5 Early Receptions
- 6 Medieval Receptions
- 7 Reformation Receptions
- 8 Modern and Postmodern Receptions
- 9 Contextualized Receptions
- 10 Jewish Receptions
- 11 Islamic Receptions
- Part III The Contemporary Christological Discussions
- Bibliography
- Index
- Cambridge Companions To Religion … (continued from page ii)
- References
7 - Reformation Receptions
from Part II - The Christological Reception
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 15 September 2025
Book contents
- The Cambridge Companion to Christology
- Cambridge Companions to Religion
- The Cambridge Companion to Christology
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Contributors
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- Part I The Christological Sources
- Part II The Christological Reception
- 5 Early Receptions
- 6 Medieval Receptions
- 7 Reformation Receptions
- 8 Modern and Postmodern Receptions
- 9 Contextualized Receptions
- 10 Jewish Receptions
- 11 Islamic Receptions
- Part III The Contemporary Christological Discussions
- Bibliography
- Index
- Cambridge Companions To Religion … (continued from page ii)
- References
Summary
This chapter outlines the different ways in which theologians of the Reformation received earlier medieval traditions. Luther himself, and both the Reformed tradition and most parts of the Catholic tradition, accepted the standard medieval view that the human nature hypostatically depends on the divine person. Dominicans followed Aquinas in supposing that the human nature comes to share in the eternal esse of the divine Son. And later Lutherans adopted the homo assumptus view of Augustine and the early Western Church.
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- The Cambridge Companion to Christology , pp. 111 - 126Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2025
References
Further Suggested Readings
Cross, Richard. Communicatio idiomatum: Reformation Christological Debates. Oxford, 2019.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Hund, Johannes. Das Wort ward Fleisch: Eine systematisch-theologische Untersuchung zur Debatte um die Wittenberger Christologie und Abendmahlslehre in den Jahren 1567 bis 1574. Göttingen, 2006.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Luy, David. Dominus mortis: Martin Luther on the Incorruptibility of God in Christ. Minneapolis, MN, 2014.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Schröder, Richard. Johann Gerhards lutherische Christologie und die aristotelische Metaphysik. Tübingen, 1983.Google Scholar
White, Graham. Luther as Nominalist: A Study of the Logical Methods Used in Martin Luther’s Disputations in the Light of Their Medieval Background. Helsinki, 1994.Google Scholar
Wiedenroth, Ulrich. Krypsis und Kenosis: Studien zu Thema und Genese der Tübinger Christologie im 17. Jahrhundert. Tübingen, 2011.10.1628/978-3-16-151071-7CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Willis, E. David. Calvin’s Catholic Christology: The Function of the So-Called Extra Calvinisticum in Calvin’s Theology. Leiden, 1966.10.1163/9789004477117CrossRefGoogle Scholar
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