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الرسالة: [QUOTE="apostle.paul, post: 3061084, member: 85886"] [COLOR="Black"][FONT="Arial Black"][SIZE="5"][LEFT][LEFT][FONT=Comic Sans MS][B][FONT=Arial]5.2.[/FONT] [FONT=Arial]Incarnation.[/FONT][/B][/FONT][/LEFT][/LEFT] [LEFT][LEFT][FONT=Comic Sans MS][B][U][COLOR=Blue][FONT=Arial][/FONT]When Ignatius refers to Christ as “both fleshly and spiritual” ([I][URL="http://www.arabchurch.com/forums/#_ftn1"]Eph.[/URL][/I] 7.2; cf. [I][URL="http://www.arabchurch.com/forums/#_ftn2"]Sm.[/URL][/I] 3.3[/COLOR][/U][U][COLOR=Blue]), he has in mind the union of the divine and human in the God-Man and thus anticipates the classical two-nature christology.[/COLOR][/U] In this connection a development can be traced from an older two-stage christology (cf. Rom 1:3–4[URL="http://www.arabchurch.com/forums/#_ftn3"]*[/URL]) to a christology dominated by the idea of incarnation (see on [I]Eph.[/I] 18.2). Here Ignatius is most nearly approached in the NT by John, but he has also moved significantly beyond the evangelist. [U][COLOR=DarkRed]The development evidently presupposes a de******ion of divine transcendence in ****physical terms (cf. [/COLOR][/U][U][COLOR=DarkRed][I][URL="http://www.arabchurch.com/forums/#_ftn4"]Pol.[/URL][/I] 3.2; [I]Eph.[/I] 7.2[/COLOR][/U][U][COLOR=DarkRed]). For such a de******ion opens up a gulf between God and humanity that requires something as paradoxical as the incarnation for God and humanity to meet.[/COLOR][/U][URL="http://www.arabchurch.com/forums/#_ftn5"]101[/URL] And in such a context it is natural for salvation to be conceived of primarily in terms of the transformation of human nature by the resurrection (cf. [I][URL="http://www.arabchurch.com/forums/#_ftn6"]Tr.[/URL][/I] 9.2; [I]Sm.[/I] 7.1).[URL="http://www.arabchurch.com/forums/#_ftn7"]102[/URL][/B][/FONT][/LEFT][/LEFT] [LEFT][LEFT][FONT=Comic Sans MS][B]The anti-docetic thrust of incarnational thinking favors a certain emphasis on concrete historical realities. Thus Ignatius apparently finds it significant that Jesus suffered under Pontius Pilate ([I][URL="http://www.arabchurch.com/forums/#_ftn8"]Mag.[/URL][/I] 11; [I]Tr.[/I] 9.1; [I]Sm.[/I] 1.2). He also correlates docetism with the avoidance of good deeds ([I]Sm.[/I] 6.2–7.1) and connects the reality of Christ’s passion with the meaningfulness of his own martyrdom ([I]Tr.[/I] 10; [I]Sm.[/I] 4.2). Similarly he sees things done by Christians “according to the flesh” as “spiritual” ([I]Eph.[/I] 8.2). Yet Ignatius also takes it for granted that the spirit is of higher dignity than the flesh, a[U][COLOR=DarkRed]nd he goes beyond the NT in ascribing significance to things only insofar as they are subordinated to the revelation of Jesus Christ as God incarnate.[/COLOR][/U] Thus he radically dissociates “Judaism” from the [URL="http://www.arabchurch.com/forums/#_ftn9"]OT[/URL] and thoroughly Christianizes the prophets (see on [I]Mag.[/I] 8–10). And having lost vital interest in eschatology except in individual terms he thinks almost exclusively of the destiny of an idealized church as he looks to the future. Ignatius’ doctrine of the incarnation deepens the sense of God’s involvement in the phenomenal world and the significance of what is done by human beings in the sphere of the flesh, but it also narrows the historical arena of divine activity and emphatically objectifies revelation.[/B][/FONT][/LEFT] [FONT=Comic Sans MS][B][URL="http://www.arabchurch.com/forums/#_ftn10"][/URL] [/B][/FONT] [FONT=Comic Sans MS][B][URL="http://www.arabchurch.com/forums/#_ftnref1"][I]Eph. [/I][/URL][I]Ephesians[/I][/B][/FONT] [FONT=Comic Sans MS][B][URL="http://www.arabchurch.com/forums/#_ftnref2"][I]Sm. [/I][/URL][I]Smyrnaeans[/I][/B][/FONT] [FONT=Comic Sans MS][B][URL="http://www.arabchurch.com/forums/#_ftnref3"]* [/URL][/B][/FONT] [LEFT][FONT=Comic Sans MS][B]3 the gospel concerning his Son, who was descended from David according to the flesh [/B][/FONT][/LEFT] [LEFT][FONT=Comic Sans MS][B]4 and was declared to be Son of God with power according to the spirit of holiness by resurrection from the dead, Jesus Christ our Lord, [/B][/FONT][/LEFT] [RIGHT][FONT=Comic Sans MS][B][COLOR=#000080]Romans 1:3–4[/COLOR] (NRSV)[/B][/FONT][/RIGHT] [FONT=Comic Sans MS][B][URL="http://www.arabchurch.com/forums/#_ftnref4"][I]Pol. [/I][/URL][I]Polycarp[/I][/B][/FONT] [FONT=Comic Sans MS][B][URL="http://www.arabchurch.com/forums/#_ftnref5"]101 [/URL]There is as yet no critical reflection in Ignatius on how the divine and the human can be joined in Christ. The christological paradoxes of [I]Eph.[/I] 7.2 and [I]Pol.[/I] 3.2 indicate that the bishop’s concern was simply to affirm that such a union occurred. Indeed, so undifferentiated is his sense of the divinity of Christ that he can refer to the “blood of God” ([I]Eph.[/I] 1.1) and the “suffering of my God” ([I]Rom.[/I] 6.3). At the same time, Christ as “our God” (see on [I]Eph.[/I] inscr) and the self-manifestation of God (cf. [I]Mag.[/I] 8.2) is somehow God in a particular way. The Father is not the Son (see on [I]Sm.[/I] 1.1). Ignatius hovers on the brink of an “economic” interpretation of the Godhead.[/B][/FONT] [FONT=Comic Sans MS][B][URL="http://www.arabchurch.com/forums/#_ftnref6"][I]Tr. [/I][/URL][I]Trallians[/I][/B][/FONT] [FONT=Comic Sans MS][B][URL="http://www.arabchurch.com/forums/#_ftnref7"]102 [/URL]A concern for the problem of sin is almost totally absent from Ignatius (see on [I]Eph.[/I] 14.2; [I]Sm.[/I] 7.1).[/B][/FONT] [FONT=Comic Sans MS][B][URL="http://www.arabchurch.com/forums/#_ftnref8"][I]Mag. [/I][/URL][I]Magnesians[/I][/B][/FONT] [FONT=Comic Sans MS][B][URL="http://www.arabchurch.com/forums/#_ftnref9"]OT [/URL]Old Testament[/B][/FONT] [FONT=Comic Sans MS][B][URL="http://www.arabchurch.com/forums/#_ftnref10"][/URL][SIZE=4][COLOR=Purple]Schoedel, W. R., Ignatius, S., Bishop of Antioch, & Koester, H. (1985). [I]Ignatius of Antioch : A commentary on the Letters of Ignatius of Antioch[/I]. Includes indexes. Hermeneia--a critical and historical commentary on the Bible (20). Philadelphia: Fortress Press[/COLOR][/SIZE].[/B][/FONT] [/LEFT][/SIZE][/FONT][/COLOR] [/QUOTE]

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