HR McIntosh again:
“The manhood of Jesus, then, is a manhood essentially one with ours.” p. 400.
"Everywhere the integrity of Jesus’ life as man is clear. His body was flesh and blood like ours. It capacity of pain, of privation, of fatigue; its tears and agony and cries; its shrinking from the hour of death; its sensitiveness to the contact of other men; its susceptibility to the influence of nature, felt the thrill of gladness begotten by the sunlight and the flowers, - all this is authentically human."
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“The manhood of Jesus, then, is a manhood essentially one with ours.”
Being of the girly variety, I think I have trouble with the term "manhood" as it is used here. Obviously I realise that Jesus is a man! But would it not have been better to write that 'Jesus's personhood is essentially one with ours'?
Maybe I'm being pedantic here... ?
Certainly the humanity of Jesus is significant for us. Is this distinct from his 'manhood'? Hmmm...
I guess I just read that quote and the first thing that came into my head was gender issues. Like, the way he's phrased it just makes me not really feel part of the "our".
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