On the Conception & Nativity of Christ

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Subsections

Virgin Birth of Christ

When the Soul is Joined to the Body in the Womb, & on the Formation of Christ’s Human Nature in the Womb

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Order of Contents

Articles  4
Quote  1
Latin  8+


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Articles

1600’s

Leiden Synopsis – Disputation 25, ‘On the Incarnation of the Son of God’, sections 15-23  in Synopsis of a Purer Theology…  (Brill, 2016), vol. 2, pp. 75-79

Turretin, Francis – Question 11, ‘How was Christ conceived from the Holy Spirit and born of the blessed Virgin’  in Institutes of Elenctic Theology, 3 vols.  ed. James Dennison Jr.  Buy  (1679–1685; P&R, 1992), vol. 2, Locus 13, The Person & State of Christ, The Conception & Nativity of Christ, pp. 340-47

Sections 21-25 are online, which are on a historical or ecclesiastical belief of Mary being a perpetual virgin.

Heidegger, Johann H. – Locus 17, ‘On the Person of Jesus Christ’, sections 4-6  in The Concise Marrow of Theology  trans. Casey Carmichael  (RHB, 2019), pp. 118-9

Heppe, Heinrich – ch. 17, ‘Person of Christ’, sections 10-13, ‘On the Conception’  in Reformed Dogmatics  Heppe does not have a section on the brith of Christ.


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Quote

That Christ’s ‘Conception’ was Analogous, but Not Precisely the Same as Normal Human Conception

Bartholomaus Keckermann

as quoted in Heinrich Heppe, Reformed Dogmatics, Person of Christ, section 12, p. 425

“(2) Of the seed and blood of the V. Mary was formed Christ’s flesh, the H. Spirit adding quickening force to this material.  Of course the seed and blood of the virgin Mary also possessed their own vital and animal spirits, as other men’s seed usually has.  But these were by no means sufficient for the plastic or formative force of the foetus in question.  And so the H. Spirit’s extraordinary shadowing and quickening were addded: whence also it is said to have been conceived of the H. Spirit, a phrase and manner of speaking which is human and metaphorical, not strictly appropriate.

(3) Thus Christ’s incarnation was at once ordinary and extraordinary: ordinary as regards the material supplied by the V. Mary, extraordinary as regards the formative force added to this material.”


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Latin Articles

1500’s

Ramus, Petrus – ch. 10, ‘Of the Conception & Nativity of Christ’  in Commentary on the Christian Religion  (Frankfurt, 1576; 1594), bk. 1, pp. 41-43

Ramus (1515-1572)

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1600’s

Martin, Matthew – Chs. 11-12 & Notes on chs. 11-12, ‘Of the Conception & Nativity of Christ’  in Summary Heads of Christian Doctrine, which Contains a Brief, Clear, Popular & Precise Explication of the Apostles’ Creed, the Decalogue, the Lord’s Prayer, the Institution of Ecclesiastical Discipline, the Sacraments of Baptism and the Supper, even a Method of Systematic Theology  (Heborne, 1603), pp. 86-88 & 477-97

Mylius, Conrad – Lord’s Day 15, Questions 35-36, ‘His Conception & Nativity’  in Catechetical Essays, or Homilies on the Heidelberg Catechism  (Hanau, 1618), pp. 275-301

Mylius (fl.1616-1618)

Wendelin, Marcus Friedrich – ch. 14, ‘Of the Formation of Christ in the Maternal Womb, & of his Nativity’  in Christian Theology  (Hanau, 1634; 2nd ed., Amsterdam, 1657), bk. 1, pp. 240-48

Wendelin (1584-1652)

Hoornbeek, Johannes – ch. 5. ‘Of the Nativity of Christ’  in Practical Theology  (Utrecht, 1663; 1689), vol. 1, bk. 5, pp. 487-92

Burman, Francis – Bk. 5, Locus 33, ch. 9, ‘Of the Incarnation, Conception & Nativity of Christ’  in A Synopsis of Theology, & especially of the Economy of the Covenant of God…  (Utrecht, 1671), vol. 2, pp. 37-44

Heidegger, Johann H. – The Marrow of Christian Theology: an Introductory Epitome of the Body of Theology  (Zurich, 1713), Locus 17, ‘Of the Person of Jesus Christ’

Theses 8-17, ‘Of the Conception of Jesus Christ & his Acts’

Theses 30-31, ‘Of the Nativity of Jesus Christ’

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1700’s

Vitringa, Campegius – The Doctrine of the Christian Religion, Summarily Described through Aphorisms  (d. 1722), vol. 5, Of the Twofold State of the Messiah, Of the Messiah’s State of Humiliation

‘Of the Conception of Jesus Christ’, pp. 472-508

‘Of the Nativity of Jesus Christ’, pp. 509-23

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