How can one say that God has become human? John of Damascus and Thomas Aquinas on the Semantics of the Incarnation
How can one say that God has become human? John of Damascus and Thomas Aquinas on the Semantics of the Incarnation

Summary/Abstract: Thomas Aquinas sets out in his famous Summa Theologiae to identify helpful ways of speaking of the Incarnation, by which one ascribes both divine properties and human properties to one person, Jesus of Nazareth. In doing so he makes extensive use of the eastern Christian teaching of John of Damascus, whose work The Orthodox Faith was translated into Latin. How do these two influential Christian thinkers make clear what they believe about God and human nature as each are manifest in the Incarnation, and why do they think it matters concretely that God became human?

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