What is it about?
The communicatio idiomatum (the exchange of divine and human properties or attributes), apparently discarded by the Council of Chalcedon in 451, becomes central to both Christology and the life of faith during the Lutheran Reformation. In our own century, the communicatio idiomatum has been expanded and deepened to incorporate all that is biological and even physical, turning the entire history of creation into the eschatological body of Christ, the second person of the Holy Trinity.
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Why is it important?
The exchange of attributes signifies that in God's own trinitarian life human experiences in time and space are swept up into the divine perichoresis.
Perspectives
Following Martin Luther, the author suggests that the trinitarian God experiences suffering and death because the experiences of Jesus Christ become the experiences of God as Trinity.
Prof Ted F Peters
Graduate Theological Union
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This page is a summary of: Communicatio idiomatum in deep incarnation, Dialog, March 2024, Wiley,
DOI: 10.1111/dial.12845.
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