The following is a Conn-versation guest post by Kenton Sparks, Professor of Biblical Studies at Eastern University. Kent is the author of God’s Word in Human Words: An Evangelical Appropriation of Critical Scholarship (Baker 2008).
The work of Pete Enns has brought to the forefront a debate about using incarnational analogies to understand inscripturation. Before we tackle that debate, perhaps we should clarify the incarnation itself. If human finiteness inevitably leads to human error (e.g., I thought my car keys were on the desk, but they were actually in my coat pocket; I thought I saw Tom, but it was Bill), what’s the implication for Christology? And what does traditional Christian orthodoxy (especially the Chalcedon Definition) contribute to our discussion of this question?
 

One Response to “Guest Post - To Err is Human: A Question about Christology”

  1. c bovell Says:
    April 10, 2008 at 11:40 pm

    The first thing to acknowledge, I think, is that not all error is sin or even stems from sin.