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Edwin Chr. van Driel, Incarnation Anyway: Arguments for Supralapsarian Christology (American Academy of Religion Series), Oxford University Press, New York 2008, xii + 194 pp., £45.00, $74.00 (ISBN 9780195369168).

Edwin Chr. van Driel, Incarnation Anyway: Arguments for Supralapsarian Christology (American... 252 Book Reviews / Journal of Reformed Theology 4 (2010) 241-265 Edwin Chr. van Driel, Incarnation Anyway: Arguments for Supralapsarian Christology (American Academy of Religion Series), Oxford University Press, New York 2008, xii + 194 pp., £45.00, $74.00 (ISBN 9780195369168). Would the Son of God have become incarnate if Adam had not sinned? Edwin van Driel’s remarkable study lays out three compelling arguments why Christian theology must answer yes. And though the traditional way of framing the question may suggest otherwise, Van Driel’s arguments are decidedly not exercises in counterfactual speculation, but arise from deep reflection on the incarnation as it happened : “the incarnation as it happened gives us so much, is so rich in gifts of divine friendship and intimacy that it cannot be explained as only a divine countermeasure against sin” (164). Christian theology, in other words, must hold to a supralapsarian Christology. The arguments, then, are three. First is what Van Driel calls the argument from supera- bundance. “In the eschaton there is an abundance, a richness in intimacy with God and in human transformation that the proton did not know” (150-51). How is this eschatological superabundance attained? The infralapsarian, for whom the incarnation http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Journal of Reformed Theology Brill

Edwin Chr. van Driel, Incarnation Anyway: Arguments for Supralapsarian Christology (American Academy of Religion Series), Oxford University Press, New York 2008, xii + 194 pp., £45.00, $74.00 (ISBN 9780195369168).

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Journal of Reformed Theology , Volume 4 (3): 252 – Jan 1, 2010
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© 2010 Koninklijke Brill NV, Leiden, The Netherlands
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252 Book Reviews / Journal of Reformed Theology 4 (2010) 241-265 Edwin Chr. van Driel, Incarnation Anyway: Arguments for Supralapsarian Christology (American Academy of Religion Series), Oxford University Press, New York 2008, xii + 194 pp., £45.00, $74.00 (ISBN 9780195369168). Would the Son of God have become incarnate if Adam had not sinned? Edwin van Driel’s remarkable study lays out three compelling arguments why Christian theology must answer yes. And though the traditional way of framing the question may suggest otherwise, Van Driel’s arguments are decidedly not exercises in counterfactual speculation, but arise from deep reflection on the incarnation as it happened : “the incarnation as it happened gives us so much, is so rich in gifts of divine friendship and intimacy that it cannot be explained as only a divine countermeasure against sin” (164). Christian theology, in other words, must hold to a supralapsarian Christology. The arguments, then, are three. First is what Van Driel calls the argument from supera- bundance. “In the eschaton there is an abundance, a richness in intimacy with God and in human transformation that the proton did not know” (150-51). How is this eschatological superabundance attained? The infralapsarian, for whom the incarnation

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