Incarnation
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- Created on: 19-04-18 19:46
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- Incarnation
- God taking on human form in Jesus
- The annunciation
- When the angel Gabriel asked Mary to accept the role of the Mother of the son of God
- message for Jews, fulfilling promises of descendent 'reign over house of Jacob'
- name Jesus means saviour in Hebrew
- conceived by holy spirit, Gods grace works through Mary
- 'Here I am servant to the Lord'
- Gods wishes couldn't have come true without human involvement
- Luke
- similarities: Mary was a Virgin, GOd worked through human beings, conceived by holy spirit, announced by angel
- Gods Message to Joseph
- Matthew
- genealogy-'Joseph husband on Mary' Jesus not of human parentage
- willing to obey
- God has fatherly privilege to name; 'Emmanuel'
- Jewish Christians- limited role for women
- Gods Message to Joseph
- Gods Message to Joseph
- Matthew
- genealogy-'Joseph husband on Mary' Jesus not of human parentage
- willing to obey
- God has fatherly privilege to name; 'Emmanuel'
- Jewish Christians- limited role for women
- Word of God
- ''in the beginning was the word and the word was God'
- word is eternal, the word existed before all things-echoes Genesis
- Gods self expression-comes from inside
- word and God co-exist-'word was with God'
- dynamic and creative-light and guidance
- Jesus is word of God
- an expression of Gods love-grace-Jesus brings truth
- ''in the beginning was the word and the word was God'
- fully human
- evangelists show how he suffered,felt pain
- son of man
- 'son of man must undergo suffering'
- ''God become one of us'
- son of God
- stood in front of Sanhedrin
- 'son of the messiah' 'I am'
- God limiting himself in human condition
- stood in front of Sanhedrin
- Incarnation and art
- For
- God takes on limitations of human nature
- Jesus had human qualities
- any ethnicity-man for all people
- focus on spiritual aspects of Gods work
- Against
- God is infinite
- 'you shall not make yourself an idol'
- gives impression you are actually worshipping statue
- images may give wrong ideas about God
- Christ the Redeemer
- arms depict cross, reminder of Gods love
- arms shows how Jesus takes in all people
- The Sacred Heart
- holes in hands
- hand points to heart
- crown of thorns round heart
- piercing through heart
- flames from heart-burning love.
- crucifix -death was redemptive,
- For
- Beattitudes
- Sermon on the Mount
- Jesus teachings found in Matthew 5-7, which give Christians a set of rules
- builds up laws given to Moses in the Old Testament
- new understanding to the law
- blessed are for the merciful
- blessed are the poor in spirit...Kingdom of heaven
- blessed for those who mourn
- Sermon on the Mount
- Parable of the sheep and Goats
- must care for people in need
- must help others and not claim to follow him
- 'just how you did it to one of the least of t hese who are members of my family, you did it to me'
- St Iranaeus
- incarnation shows love, and importance of human race
- the son was the father from the beginnnig
- the son as the word, inspired people in Old Testament
- grace comes from the word
- the word shows God is beyond human sight
- Jesus has qualities of GOd
- Jesus is perfect human
- Jesus' qualities are found in most people
- Fully God and fully human
- when hes too much God there's a heresy that Jesus was basically God in disguise
- when hes too much man, sometimes thought to be just a good man
- Dei Verbum
- God is revealed in Jesus, and brings salvation
- stresses human nature
- Verbum Domini
- deliberately limited himself so humans could make sense of GOds love
- Jesus was fully controlled by GOd
- when hes too much God there's a heresy that Jesus was basically God in disguise
- Grace
- no one can earn or deserve grace
- incarnation ultimate sign of grace
- humans are sinful, yet grace builds deeper relationship
- enables us to be aware what God wants from us
- holy spirit works amongst us
- 'I will always be with you to the end of the age'-shows in sacraments
- sacraments
- baptism
- confirmation
- eucharist
- marriage
- ordination
- reconciliation
- sacrament of the sick
- sacraments
- sanctify life of believer
- imago Dei
- Mary visited cousing ELizabeth-'the child leapt in her womb'
- Jesus present from moment of conception, as Elizabeth filled with holy spirit
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