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Article: Incarnation and Resurrection: Toward a Contemporary Understanding.(Book review)
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- Theological Studies
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- December 1, 2008
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INCARNATION AND RESURRECTION: TOWARD A CONTEMPORARY UNDERSTANDING. By Paul D. Molnar. Grand Rapids, Mich.: Eerdmans, 2007. Pp. xiv + 418. $35.
Molnar brings dogma and ethics into conversation within a basic thesis, namely, that theologians who fail to correlate closely the Incarnation and Resurrection will inevitably compromise one or the other and will mistakenly search for salvation in ethical achievements. Barth's theology provides the template for the thesis. The Incarnation is a sovereign, free act of God, a "new creation" that bears no "evolutionary potential" in creation that gets progressively actualized. Nor is Incarnation a "symbol." It is flesh. This ...