Charlene P. E. Burnsis professor and Chair,department of philosophy and religious studies at the University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire. She is the authorof More Moral Than God:Taking Responsibility for Religious Violence(2008) and Divine Becoming: Rethinking Jesus and Incarnation(Fortress Press, 2001), andthe editor ofMis/Representing Evil: Evil in an Interdisciplinary Key(2009).
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Preface 1. Was Jesus God? Jesus and Incarnation The Capacity for Incarnation A Road Map Integrating Theology and Culture 2. The Question of Incarnation The Many Incarnations of God Incarnation in a Christian Key 3. A Short History of Christology From Nazareth to Chalcedon Deification, Incarnation, and the Energies of God Western Revisions of the Chalcedonian Paradigm Conclusion 4. The Empathic, Relational God A Mutable God God's Fellowship with Humanity 5. The Empathic, Relational Human Developmental Psychology and Selves in Infancy Cosmic Sympatheia: Entrainment and Altruism in Nature Drawing Near to a Theological Anthropology 6. The Incarnation as Participation Jesus the Man: Fully Human Jesus as Symbol: Fully Divine The Incarnate God Jesus as Christ: Fully Human and Fully Divine 7. Participation in Good and Evil Creating Compassionate Community Learned Compassion in Buddhism Sin and Evil in Participatory Creation Notes Index