Book review: Made Man by Craig Hamilton
Book review: Made Man by Craig Hamilton
7 December 2019
Photo: Alex Pasarelu
Christology – how you view Jesus – makes or breaks people’s theology and helps establish their stances and worldviews. 
In this entertaining, perhaps indulgent, take on “Why God becoming human is so shocking, so necessary and so life-changing”, this Sydney minister and writer chronicles the historical “argy-bargy” that led to Orthodox Christian beliefs in the incarnation of Jesus Christ as fully divine and fully human.
I don’t think I have read a more engaging account of the various creeds and political arm-wrestles that led to our present perspectives.
Hamilton, with humour, relish and aplomb, also unpacks a laundry-load of terms, such as anthropomorphism, atonement, immanence, transcendence, etc.
Along the way, of necessity and by choice, he touches on numerous other doctrines of the Church, including Trinity, death (“the absence of life”).
While potentially alienating to non-theologians, the man communicates well.
Available at Koorong.