A theological tour de force on the nature of Christ's Incarnation
A theological tour de force on the nature of Christ's IncarnationA theological tour de force on the nature of Christ's Incarnation
Discover Marcus Dods' magisterial work on the nature, offices, and work of Christ's Incarnation. The second half of this work examines the first four centuries of Christianity and the views of the early Fathers on the Incarnation. Drawing on both Scripture and the history of theology, Dods shows that 1) Christ's incarnation "was made flesh" according to biblical testimony and that also that 'the word' was "sinless" in accordance with biblical prophecy.
Dods also examines how early Christian theologians—Ignatius, Polycarp, Irenaeus, Tertullian, Hippolytus, Origen, Cyprian, Gregory Thaumaturgus, Eusebius, Athanasius, Hilary, Cyril, Basil, Gregory of Nazianzus, Gregory of Nyssa, Ambrose,
Chrysostome, and more—to show how thoroughly the doctrine of Incarnation saturated early Christian thought and how definitively they articulated it.
Marcus Dods was a Scottish divine and biblical scholar. He was born at Belford, Northumberland, the youngest son of Rev. Marcus Dods, minister of the Scottish church of that town.
He studied at Edinburgh Academy and Edinburgh University, graduating in 1854. Having studied theology for five years he was licensed in 1858, and in 1864 became minister of Renfield Free Church, Glasgow, where he worked for twenty-five years. In 1889 he was appointed professor of New Testament Exegesis in the New College, Edinburgh, of which he became principal on the death of Robert Rainy in 1907.
Throughout his life, both ministerial and professorial, he devoted much time to the publication of theological books. Several of his writings, especially a sermon on Inspiration delivered in 1878, incurred the charge of unorthodoxy, and shortly before his election to the Edinburgh professorship he was summoned before the General Assembly, but the charge was dropped by a large majority, and in 1891 he received the honorary degree of DD from Edinburgh University.
He edited Lange's Life of Christ in English (Edinburgh, 1864, 6 vols.), Augustine's works (1872-1876), and, with Alexander Whyte, Clark's Handbooks for Bible Classes series. In the Expositors Bible series he edited Genesis and 1 Corinthians, and he was also a contributor to the 9th edition of the Encyclopaedia Britannica and James Hastings's Dictionary of the Bible.
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