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Published online by Cambridge University Press: 07 November 2024
Our realist commitment to both Christology and biology entails that the God–Human, Jesus Christ, came into an evolutionary world. Christology and biology further entail that Jesus, who was fully human, had to have a fully human genome as understood by contemporary genetics – which is a logically necessary condition for the truth of the Chalcedonian assertion of his humanity. In this chapter, we build our discussion around issues raised by this entailment in relation to the initial event of Jesus’s coming, his Virgin Birth. In Chapters 3 and 4, we laid the groundwork for our discussion by presenting orthodox Christology and mainline biology on their own independent terms, but on this rich topic of the Virgin Birth, we put them together for the first time.
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