Incarnation (Christianity)

Taking again the expression of holy Jean in the Prolog of its Gospel (" the Verb was made chair" : Jean, 1,14), the Church calls Incarnation the fact that the Son of God assumed a human nature to achieve in it our safety (Catechism of the Catholic church, p. 102).

In Christian Theology , the Incarnation is thus the fact, for God - in theory not subjected to time -, to be itself incarnated in the form of a human person, Jesus-Christ, in a time (origin of the Christian era) and a place (Palestine, more precisely Nazareth in Galileo) given.

The Incarnation would have been carried out by the action of the the Holy Spirit when it was posed on the Virgin Mary, then by the birth of Jesus to Nazareth. The birth of Jesus is commemorated the day of Christmas by the Christians, who they are Catholique S, Protesting S, or orthodoxe S.

The concept is regarded as a mystery, nonaccessible directly to the human Raison. The two other indexed mysteries are those of the Trinité and the Immaculate Conception.

Worthy the Marie d' Agréda wrote a book which explains that in detail.

The expression era of the Incarnation indicates the period which succeeds the Incarnation of God as a Jesus-Christ. It is called also Christian era.

Quotation

" The Verb, when it was incarnated, passed from ubiquity to space, of eternity to the history, the unlimited happiness to the change and the mort" (Jorge Shine Borges, Fictions ).

" God was made man because it is more difficult to be a man than to be God. " (Voltaire)

External bonds

Mystery of the Incarnation on Arimathie.org

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