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În acest eseu, îmi propun să conturez doctrina referitoare la întruparea lui Isus Hristos așa cum este reflectată în cele mai semnificative crezuri ale creștinismului. Totuși, pentru a înțelege evoluția acestei doctrine, voi începe prin a prezenta câteva imagini din lumea primelor declarații asemănătoare cu crezul care au apărut în perioada post-biblică.

I invite the reader to take a journey into the theological world of two little treatises written by one of the most interesting ecclesiastical figures of the fifth century coming from the Antiochene tradition: Theodoret, Bishop of Cyrus.

In Jeremiah 28, there is a dispute between the prophets Jeremiah and Hananiah over the (il)legitimacy of prophecies of salvation concerning Judah and prophecies of judgement regarding Babylon. On the eve of Jerusalem’s fall to the Babylonians, the prophet Jeremiah, who proclaims judgement on Judah at the hands of Babylon, appears to be the true, genuine, canonical voice of God. While this text does not preclude the eventual authenticity of prophecies of salvation in the event that they are proven valid by being fulfilled, it nevertheless is rather strange that the book of Jeremiah ends with a collection of prophecies against the Chaldaeans. The anti-Babylonian statements in Jeremiah 50-51 are ascribed to the very same prophet who had once dismissed Hananiah for uttering similarly worded – and presumably uninspired – invectives before the people of Jerusalem.

Ha azt a számtalan sok kérdést, amely naponként ostromolja az emberi lelket, mindig összefogóbb kérdésekre vezetjük vissza, végre egyetlenegy nagy és rendkivüli kérdéshez jutunk: Kicsoda az Isten ? — A tudományos gondolkozás végső nagy szintézise: a filozófia sok mindenről beszél, de végső eredményében csak egyetlenegy nagy kérdésre keres feleletet, amelyet tétovázás nélkül ismét csak így fogalmazhatunk meg: Kicsoda az Isten? — Olyan nagy és rendkivüli ez a kérdés, hogy ezt nemcsak az emberi értelem és ész adja fel, hanem maga az egész emberi exisztencia. Az emberi exisztencia nem is más, mint Isten után kérdező valóság. Egyetlenegy nagy kérdés, amelyre egyetlenegy felelet van: Isten!