My Lord and My God: Understanding the Incarnation | Prof. Bruce Marshall

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🗓️ 16 June 2025

⏱️ 47 minutes

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Summary

This lecture was given on April 7th, 2025, at University of Tulsa.

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About the Speaker:

Bruce D. Marshall is Lehman Professor of Christian Doctrine at Southern Methodist University, and in 2023 he held the Aquinas Chair in the Thomistic Institute at the Angelicum in Rome. He is the author of Trinity and Truth and Christology in Conflict, and at present he is completing a book entitled The Primacy of Christ: Faith, Reason, and the Cross. Marshall has written extensively on the doctrines of the Trinity, the person and redemptive work of Christ, the Eucharist, the Catholic Church and non-Christian religions, and the relationship between faith and reason. He received his B.A. from Northwestern University and his Ph.D. from Yale University, and is a past President of the Academy of Catholic Theology.

This project/publication was made possible through the support of Grant 63391 from the John Templeton Foundation. The opinions expressed in this publication are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the views of the John Templeton Foundation.

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0:50.7	So I prepared an outline, which I hope is available, looks like somebody has it on your lap,
0:58.0	a fairly detailed outline of the talk, so you can follow along as we go.
1:05.0	And also there's a page of a couple of texts, actually three texts, one from the Gospel of John, and then part of the Nicene Creed and the definition of Calcedon, all of which will refer to as we go along.
1:21.6	So I hope it will be not too difficult to follow.
1:30.3	This is a, the issue we're talking about understanding the incarnation,
1:34.3	is a matter of intense scrutiny and reflection within the Catholic tradition
1:42.3	and within the Christian tradition more broadly,
1:45.1	has been subject of extremely involved discussion,
1:49.0	and what I will try to do is focus in on what is absolutely most basic
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