The Incarnation of the Son of God; Being the Bampton Lectures for the Year 1891
The Incarnation of the Son of God; Being the Bampton Lectures for the Year 1891
Charles Gore
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Logic cai t analyze the phrases, "self-surrender, " "entering into another's pain. " yet they express realities. We can- not u r, 't Ear with Logic, then, in understanding the method of divine Love. Its value is negative rather than positive. It is not the platform of the schools on which we must take our stand for an effective >nj it is not the abstract consideration of divine attributes, to which we must trust for insight into 122 THE INCARNATION OF THE SON OF GOD. the mystery, whether applie...d on the side of rationalism or of dogmatism. We must approach the matter rather with the moral conception of deliberate sympathy, such as does not save de haut en has by acts of power from its own vantage-ground, but comes down into another's condition to lift him from below. " Let this mind be in you which was also in Christ Jesus, who, pre-existing in the characteristics of God, thought not equality with God a prize to be clutched at, but emptied Him- self, and took the characteristics of a servant, and was made in the likeness of men : and being found in fashion as a man, He humbled Himself, and be- came obedient, unto death, even the death of the cross.
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