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Was Jesus of two minds ... literally? (Part 1 and a half)
December 21st, 200902:44 PM ETIn my last post I laid down the raw materials for an account of how Jesus could be simultaneously omniscient (qua his divinity) and finite in knowledge (qua his humanity). I did so by outlining the dual consciousness of split brain patients. In those fascinating cases people who suffered from severe seizures were given a corpus callosotomy, an oper... -
Was Jesus of two minds ... literally? (Part 1)
December 16th, 200907:53 AM ETWe continue our reflection on the paradoxical notion of God becoming incarnate in Jesus Christ (with special attention to the property of omniscience and finite human knowledge). Our last foray focused on the unsatisfying "reduplicative formula" which really does little more than label the paradox at issue. According to this "model" (if it can be c...
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