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The Incarnation

The eternal Son takes flesh — God becomes one of us

The Incarnation is the belief that the eternal Son of God took on full human nature and was born as Jesus of Nazareth. The Gospel of John proclaims that the Word became flesh (John 1:14), and Athanasius defended the teaching in his On the Incarnation. Held across Christian traditions, it affirms that in Jesus God truly entered human life without ceasing to be divine.

How it traveled

  1. Matthew
    Antioch · 80
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  2. Luke
    Rome · 84
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  3. John
    Ephesus · 100
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  4. Dialogue with Trypho
    Rome · 165
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  5. Against Heresies: Book III
    Lyons · 202
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  6. On the Flesh of Christ.
    — · 220
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  7. The Church History of Eusebius
    Caesarea · 339
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  8. The Life of Constantine with Orations of Constantine and Eusebius
    Caesarea · 339
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  9. The Incarnation of the Word
    Alexandria · 373
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  10. Against the Arians. (Orationes contra Arianos IV.)
    Alexandria · 373
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  11. The Catechetical Lectures of S. Cyril
    Jerusalem · 386
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  12. Select Orations of Saint Gregory Nazianzen
    Nazianzus · 390
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  13. Against Eunomius
    Nyssa · 395
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  14. The Great Catechism
    Nyssa · 395
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  15. Exposition of the Christian Faith
    Milan · 397
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  16. The Homilies of St. John Chrysostom on the Gospel of St. John
    Constantinople (Istanbul) · 407
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  17. The Homilies of St. John Chrysostom
    Constantinople (Istanbul) · 407
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  18. Homilies on First Corinthians
    Constantinople (Istanbul) · 407
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  19. The Commentary and Homilies of St. John Chrysostom on Galatians and Ephesians
    Constantinople (Istanbul) · 407
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  20. A Commentary on the Apostles' Creed
    Aquileia · 411
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  21. Lectures or Tractates on the Gospel According to St. John
    Hippo Regius · 430
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  22. Expositions on the Book of Psalms
    Hippo Regius · 430
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  23. Sermons on Selected Lessons of the New Testament
    Hippo Regius · 430
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  24. Reply to Faustus the Manichæan
    Hippo Regius · 430
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  25. The Harmony of the Gospels
    Hippo Regius · 430
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  26. City of God
    Hippo Regius · 430
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  27. On the Holy Trinity
    Hippo Regius · 430
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  28. Letters of St. Augustin
    Hippo Regius · 430
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  29. A Treatise on the Merits and Forgiveness of Sins, and on the Baptism of Infants
    Hippo Regius · 430
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  30. The Seven Books of John Cassian on the Incarnation of the Lord, Against Nestorius
    Marseille · 435
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  31. The Ecclesiastical History, Dialogues, and Letters of Theodoret
    Cyrrhus · 458
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  32. The Letters and Sermons of Leo the Great
    Rome · 461
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  33. John of Damascus: Exposition of the Orthodox Faith
    Damascus · 749
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  34. Anselm's Cur Deus Homo
    Canterbury · 1109
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  35. Treatise on the Incarnation (qq[1]-59)
    Paris · 1274
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  36. Treatise on the Sacraments (qq[60]-90)
    Paris · 1274
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  37. Book Second. of the Knowledge of God the Redeemer, in Christ, as First Manifested to the Fathers, Under the Law, and Thereafter to Us Under the Gospel
    Geneva · 1564
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  38. A History of the Work of Redemption
    Northampton, Massachusetts · 1758
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  39. Seventeen Occasional Sermons
    Northampton, Massachusetts · 1758
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  40. XIV Five discourses on the soul's eternal salvation
    Northampton, Massachusetts · 1758
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