Article: Divinity and Humanity: The Incarnation Reconsidered.(SHORTER NOTICES)(Book review)

DIVINITY AND HUMANITY: THE INCARNATION RECONSIDERED. By Oliver Crisp. Current Issues in Theology. New York: Cambridge University, 2007. Pp. xiv + 187. $80: $27.99.

This book explores several issues raised by the doctrine of the Incarnation. Early on, Crisp discusses "perichoresis" or Christ's divinity "'interpenetrating" his humanity. Here the key difficulty is that the hypostatically united "'partners" (the uncreated divine nature of Christ and his created human nature) are infinitely different, whereas trinitarian "perichoresis" involves divine Persons of the same nature. Further chapters are concerned with the humanity of Christ, and they end with a ...

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