DOGMATIC THEOLOGY

IV

THE POHLE-PREUSS SERIES OF DOGMATIC TEXT-BOOKS

1. God: His Knowability, Essence, and Attributes. 2nd edition, vi & 479 pp., $2

net.

2. The Divine Trinity. 2nd edition, iv & 299 Pp., $1.50 net.

3. God the Author of Nature and the Supernatural. 2nd edition, v & 365 pp., $1.75 net.

4. Christology. A Dogmatic Treatise on the Incarnation. 2nd edition, iii & 311 pp., $1.50 net.

5. Soteriology. A Dogmatic Treatise on the Redemption. iv & 169 pp., $1 net.

6. Mariology. A Dogmatic Treatise on the B. V. Mary, Mother of God; With an Appendix on the Worship of the Saints, Relics, and Images. iv & 185 pp., $1 net. 7. Grace, Actual and Habitual. iv & 443 pp., $2 net.

8. The Sacraments. I: The Sacraments in General. Baptism. Confirmation. ii & 328 pp., $1.50 net.

In preparation:

9. The Sacraments, II: The Holy Eucharist.

To follow later:

IO. The Sacraments, III: Penance.

II.

The Sacraments, IV: Extreme Unction.
Holy Orders. Matrimony.

12. Eschatology.

A DOGMATIC TREATISE ON THE

INCARNATION

BY

THE REVEREND JOSEPH POHLE, Pн. D., D.D.

FORMERLY PROFESSOR OF APOLOGETICS AT THE CATHOLIC
UNIVERSITY OF AMERICA, NOW PROFESSOR OF DOGMA
IN THE UNIVERSITY OF BRESLAU

AUTHORIZED

ENGLISH VERSION (BASED ON THE FIFTH
GERMAN EDITION AND COMPARED WITH THE
SIXTH), WITH SOME ABRIDGMENT AND
NUMEROUS ADDITIONAL REFERENCES

THEOLOGICAL LIBRARY

NOV 23 1917

HARVARD
DIVINITY SCHOOL

PREFACE

TABLE OF CONTENTS

INTRODUCTION

PART I. DUALITY IN UNITY, OR THE CONSTITUTIVE ELEMENTS

CH. I. The Divinity of Christ .

CH. II. The Humanity of Christ

§ 1. Reality and Integrity of Christ's Sacred Humanity

ART. 1. The Reality of Christ's Sacred Humanity,

as Defined Against the Docetae .

ART. 2. The Integrity of Christ's Sacred Humanity,

as Defined Against Arianism and Apol-

linarianism

§ 2. The Adamic Origin of the Human Nature of

Christ

§ 3. The Passibility of Christ's Human Nature .

PART II. UNITY IN DUALITY, OR THE HYPOSTATIC UNION .

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I

3

CH. I. The Dogma of the Hypostatic Union

87

§ 1. The Hypostatic Union of the Two Natures in

Christ

89

ART. I. The Positive Dogmatic Teaching of Revela-

tion, as Defined Against Nestorius.

89

ART. 2. Speculative Development of the Dogma of

the Hypostatic Union

116

147

§ 2. The Inconfusion of the Two Natures in Christ

ART. I. The Existence of One Divine Person in

Two Perfect Natures, as Defined Against

Monophysitism .

ART. 2. The Existence of Two Wills in Christ, as

Defined Against Monothelitism .

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