Re: Synoptic Christology. Pre-existent? Divine in what sense
Posted: Sun Nov 20, 2016 6:04 am
In what sense divine?
Spinoza explains the nature of the Christian revelation as John the Baptizer would have approved. The question to solve is this one : what were they being saved from?
On prophecy,
Cambridge Texts in the History of Philosophy
Edited by Jonathan Israel
Cambridge University Press, 2007
ISBN 9780521530972
Chapter 1 On prophecy, page 19, [18]
Spinoza explains the nature of the Christian revelation as John the Baptizer would have approved. The question to solve is this one : what were they being saved from?
On prophecy,
Spinoza, Theological-Political TreatiseI do not believe that anyone has reached such a degree of perfection above others except Christ, to whom the decrees of God which guide men to salvation were revealed not by words or visions but directly; and that is why God revealed himself to the Apostles through the mind of Christ, as he did, formerly, to Moses by means of a heavenly voice. Therefore the voice of Christ may be called the voice of God, like the voice which Moses heard. In this sense we may also say that the wisdom of God, that is, the wisdom which is above human wisdom, took on human nature in Christ, and that Christ was the way of salvation.
Cambridge Texts in the History of Philosophy
Edited by Jonathan Israel
Cambridge University Press, 2007
ISBN 9780521530972
Chapter 1 On prophecy, page 19, [18]