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Fully divine and fully human: a bi-modal outline towards consistency

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 October 2020

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A. J. COTNOIR
Jc BEALL*
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Department of Philosophy, University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, IN 46556, USA
A. J. COTNOIR*
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Department of Philosophy, University of St Andrews, St Andrews, Fife, KY16 9AL, UK
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e-mail: jbeall@nd.edu
e-mail: ac117@st-andrews.ac.uk
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Abstract

Philosophers and theologians have long recognized apparent contradictions in the Christian doctrine of the incarnation wherein Jesus is both fully divine and fully human and thereby exemplifies all properties essential to being divine and all properties essential to being human, including, respectively, immutability and mutability. In this article, we outline a new account of such apparent contradictions, wherein each such pair of (modal) properties involves different modal operators.

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Religious Studies , Volume 58 , Issue 1 , March 2022 , pp. 258 - 265
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