The Incarnation: A Study of Philippians II, 5-11 (1897 Gifford), book
The Incarnation: A Study of Philippians II, 5-11 (1897) is a book by Edwin Hamilton Gifford.
Abstract
Edwin Gifford here undertakes a close exegetical treatment of Phillipians 2:5-11; his principle objective is to illumine how this excerpt from the Apostle Paul proves and illustrates the doctrine of the incarnation. As can be seen in the outline listed below, Gifford's strategy is to move slowly word by word, line by line, and verse by verse through the entire pericope in order to demonstrate how and why the Apostle Paul consciously employed certain words and turns of phrase to show his readers that Jesus was both fully divine and fully human and how in the process of Jesus becoming flesh, Jesus did not relinquish or set aside his divine nature in any way. Perhaps the most interesting aspect of Gifford's monograph is that he alerts the readers to the extensive and on-going scholarly debate that was concurrently happening shortly before and during the time of his writing regarding this passage. Several scholars, it seems, including Luther and Calvin during the Protestant Reformation, and contemporaneous German scholars to his day, argued that this text said much more about Jesus as a man than Jesus as God. In response, Gifford writes to refute these suspicions and employs Phillipians 2:5-11 to defend orthodox articulations of the doctrine of the Incarnation. ~Deborah Forger
Editions and translations
Published in London [England]: Hodder and Stoughton; and New York, NY: Dodd, Mead, & Co., 1897.
Contents
PART I
- I. The Context
- II. The Subject
- III. Pre-existence - ὑπάρχων & Continued Existence - ὑπάρχων
- IV. ἐν μορφῇ θεοῦ
- V. οὐκ ἁρπαγμὸν ἡγήσατο τὸ εἶναι ἴσα θεῷ
- VI. ἀλλὰ ἑαυτὸν ἐκένωσεν
- VII. μορφήν δούλου λαβών
- VIII. ἐν ὁμοιώματι ἀνθρώπων γενόμενος
- IX. καὶ σχήματι εὑρεθεις ὡς ἄνθρωπος
- X. ἐταπείνωσεν ἑαυτόν
- ΧΙ. The Exaltation
PART II
- Notes on the History of Various Interpretations
External links
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