Dual Citizenship

Jesus’ particular Jewish existence (his human nature) and his universal transcendence (his divine nature) are brought together here in the construction of a Christology that proposes the equality unity and full participation of both natures. Using frameworks from multicultural theory it identifies the processes by which Christologies have historically negotiated difference in the Incarnation and explains why uniting the two natures of Christ consistently and problematically supplants Jesus’ Jewishness. This conceptual framework unites the two natures without sublimating their differences by proposing a contextual universalism. ’Overlapping membership’ offers the means whereby the particular Jewish human nature and the universal divine nature of Jesus Christ engage in an ongoing dialogue and formation in the one person of the Incarnation. This work offers a new way of understanding the two natures of Christ that brings together historical understandings with contemporary contextual Christologies enabling us to find a way to understand Christ as both truly human and fully divine.