Welcome to Defenders, the teaching class of Dr. William Lane Craig.

Today, the Doctrine of Christ, Part 1.

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Today we begin a new locus or theme in our survey of Christian doctrine.

We first began many months ago talking about the doctrine of Revelation, and by that we don't

mean the biblical book by that name, but rather how God reveals himself to humanity,

both generally in nature and conscience and especially in His Word, Jesus Christ and in

Scripture. Then we spent a long time on that major topic of the doctrine of God, studying the attributes

of God, taking an excurses on natural theology of arguments for God's existence,

and then looking at the doctrine of the Trinity, and finally the person and work of the Holy Spirit.

Today we have the exciting opportunity to begin a new locus and to discuss the doctrine of Christ.

And this usually goes by the name Christology. Christology is going to be the theology

or the study of Christ. And as we'll see, there are two major aspects to Christology. One will be the person of Christ,

and the other will be the work of Christ.

And we'll look at each of these two areas together.

The person of Christ seeks to answer the question, who is Jesus Christ?

The work of Christ tries to answer the question, what did he do?

Now, the person of Christ is preoccupied principally with the doctrine of the incarnation,

and the work of Christ is principally occupied with the doctrine of the atonement.

And so over the coming months, we'll be talking about these two important Christian doctrines.

And I think as we all know, the doctrines of the incarnation and atonement are absolutely central

to Christian theism.

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