Etzelnik wrote:

I might also add, I would very much appreciate some philosophical sources regarding the Incarnation. That is by far my most significant issue with Christianity.

Notably, myself coming from the Catholic faith, it was precisely to enable a philosophical understanding of the Chalcedonian doctrine of the Incarnation that I accepted the real distinction between essence and esse (act of being). I used to be agnostic about whether that distinction was real or just formal, until I learned the solutions proposed by Suarez and Scotus, both of whom deny the real distinction, to account at the philosophical level for the Chalcedonian doctrine that Jesus' human nature is not a human person, and found those solutions quite unsatisfactory.

I opened a thread on the subject near the dawn of time, i.e. of this forum's time:

http://classicaltheism.boardhost.com/viewtopic.php?id=121

 

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