Is the Incarnation of God Impossible?
Dr. Timothy Pawl, Associate Professor of Philosophy at the University of St. Thomas (MN), presents a lecture on the following: Christianity teaches that God became man. But how can that be? For, it would seem, some attributes God must have – maybe eternal existence and omnipotence - are attributes that a man can’t have. How, then, can one person be both God and man? In this talk, Dr. Pawl presents the fundamental philosophical problem for the doctrine of the incarnation, then provides some ways to respond to it. His recent work on philosophy of religion focuses on philosophical objections to the traditional, orthodox teachings of the Christian church. This lecture is the fifth in the 2015-2016 Philosophy Speaker Series at Wheaton College, and was delivered on Wednesday, March 23.