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Shedding the theanthropic person of Christ

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  25 July 2006

Oliver D. Crisp
Affiliation:
Department of Theology and Religious Studies, University of Bristol, 3 Woodland Road, Bristol BS8 1TB, UKOliver.Crisp@bristol.ac.uk

Abstract

The Dogmatic Theology of the nineteenth-century divine William Shedd has received little attention in the literature. Yet it contains a number of theologically interesting arguments. This article sets forth what Shedd has to say on the doctrine of the theanthropic person of Christ. I show that his doctrine of the person of Christ represents one important Chalcedonian stream of Christology, which, in Shedd's estimation, is intimately connected to two overarching themes in his dogmatics, namely, traducianism and Augustinian realism. His commitment to these two doctrines in his theological anthropology has important and unexpected implications for his Christology. Although the conclusion is that Shedd's doctrine of the person of Christ suffers from several serious problems, it represents an important contribution to systematic theology, which has more than historical interest.

Type
Research Article
Copyright
Scottish Journal of Theology Ltd 2006

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