Unconventional Wisdom Book

The Christian belief that Jesus is the Son of God, one person who has a divine nature and a human nature, is often believed to be incoherent. How can one person have two very different natures? How can Jesus, believed to be fully God, have attributes in his human person that seem to be the very opposite of God's attributes? (For example, as a man, Jesus was spatially located in Galilee, Judea, and Samaria, yet God is omnipresent.) Morris answers these questions by ruling out certain strategies and by presenting his own view, which he claims is actually an ancient one, that the one person of Jesus has two minds, one divine and one human.

Morris's argument is a bit too complex for me to adequately summarize here, so I won't try. Suffice it to say, I think it's an argument that is cogent and coherent. One valuable service he performs is analyzing the concept of natures. We often think that human nature includes many things, including being a created person, not being divine, and sinning. Morris states that these are common, though not essential, properties of humans. It's important to distinguish between the properties of a mere human being and the properties of the God-man, Jesus.

Things get a little crazy in one chapter, when he responds to some questions about whether the Son of God could be incarnate on different plans. That doesn't seem to merit much attention. But sometimes strange claims must be addressed, and Morris does so admirably.

This is an important book for those studying Christology. For that reason, I give it five stars and highly recommend it.