He Came Down From Heaven: The Preexistence of Christ
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He Came Down From Heaven: The Preexistence of Christ  -     By: Douglas McCready

He Came Down From Heaven: The Preexistence of Christ

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Was Jesus merely a human creature? Or the uncreated Son of God? McCready provides a thorough survey of the doctrine of pre-existence, weighing the evidence and engaging the arguments for and against the assertion of a pre-incarnate Christ. Covers New Testament teaching, Jewish and Hellenistic backgrounds, postapostolic development, and modern theological thought. 348 pages, softcover from InterVarsity.

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Title: He Came Down From Heaven: The Preexistence of Christ
By: Douglas McCready
Format: Paperback
Number of Pages: 348
Vendor: InterVarsity Press
Publication Date: 2005
Dimensions: 9 X 6 (inches)
Weight: 1 pound 1 ounce
ISBN: 0830827749
ISBN-13: 9780830827749
Stock No: WW827740

Publisher's Description

Who Was Jesus Christ? Accompanying all the new studies of the life of Jesus has been the question of Jesus' identity. Was he anything more than a human creature? A key issue in this debate is the claim of Jesus' preexistence as the divine, uncreated, Son of God before his incarnation on earth. Douglas McCready provides a thorough survey of the doctrine covering New Testament teaching, Jewish and Hellenistic background and historical development. He carefully weighs the evidence and engages the arguments for and against the Christian orthodox conviction of Christ's preexistence. Drawing on expert scholarship McCready makes this important subject of debate accessible to students and other non-experts who want to know the evidence and arguments for this central doctrine of Christian faith. This book will be especially useful as a supplementary text for theology courses on Christology or in biblical studies courses on the New Testament witness to Jesus Christ.

Author Bio

Douglas McCready (M.Div., Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary; Ph.D., Temple University) teaches religion and philosophy. He is the author of Jesus Christ for the Modern World (Peter Lang).

Editorial Reviews

A wide-ranging and well-written book. -- Books Culture, July/August 2007

"The new book by Douglas McCready, He Came Down from Heaven, is an innovative study, both exegetical and theological, of the classical doctrine of Christ's preexistence (more accurately, his pretemporal existence, I think). The author is widely read and writes with clarity, though some of his conclusions will challenge some modern thinking that regards preexistence as metaphor or myth. Rightly he sees both the intrinsic theological importance of the doctrine and its ethical implications. Here is a title worth its salt. I commend it." -- Ralph P. Martin, Distinguished Scholar in Residence, Fuller Theological Seminary, and Azusa Pacific University

"Thank heavens we now have a full-length monograph on the issue of the preexistence of Christ, which is fully cognizant not only of the scholarly literature on the subject but is equally at home with the patristic interpretation of the key NT texts, especially the Pauline and Johannine ones. Douglas McCready is to be commended for his thoroughness in dealing with objections to this idea, and yet also his pastoral concern to show the practical and personal importance of affirming this concept as a part of an orthodox Christology. Highly recommended." -- Ben Witherington III, professor of New Testament, Asbury Theological Seminary

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