Saturday, 11 April 2015

Janet Sidaway: Deification as Anthropophany: Hilary of Poitiers' Original Interpretation of the Exchange Formula

This paper examines an aspect of Hilary's theology that has been all but ignored: his emphasis on the full humanity of the incarnate Christ as the means whereby humankind attains the glory originally planned for it. Through this he suggests that the two phrases commonly known as the ‘exchange formula'- the ‘unassumed is the unhealed' and ‘God became man so man could become God'- are not interchangeable but sequential.

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