THE WORD BECAME FLESH
Evangelicals and the Incarnation
Edited by David Peterson. Paternoster. 208 pages. ?14.99
ISBN 1 84227 209 8
The background to the book lies over a century ago in an 1889 conference called Lux Mundi. This was a watershed in the Church of England that crystallised what we now call liberal Anglicanism.
The concerns of Lux Mundi sound biblical enough. It emphasised the incarnation as central to Christian thought. It pointed to the incarnation as a paradigm for understanding the mission of the church in the modern world. But, as so often is the case, fine words can mask a hollow theology and these evangelical authors expose it. Lux Mundi detached the incarnation from the atonement. While not denying the importance of the cross, it became increasingly relativised. The influence of this approach is not confined to liberal Anglicanism but appears in many different Christian circles. The papers that form this present book were originally given at an Oak Hill Theological College conference.
