CHRIST,
HUMANITY AND DIVINITY OF

Christ was a complete man.

Augustine of Hippo

Jesus Christ is God in the form of man; as completely God as if he were not man; as completely man as if he were not God.

A.J.F. Behrends

Jesus Christ, the condescension of divinity, and the exaltation of humanity.

Phillips Brooks

Christ was wearied (Jn 4:6), hungry (Mt 4:2) and required sleep (Mt 8:24). Just as we say that the flesh, assumed in the incarnation, became his very own, in the same way the weakness of the flesh became his very own in an economic appropriation to the terms of the unification. So he is “made like his brethren in all things except sin alone ” (Heb. 2:17).

Cyril of Alexandria

Christ’s humanity is the great hem of the garment, through which we can touch his Godhead.

Richard Glover

We affirm that faith in the true humanity of Christ is essential to faith in the Gospel.

The gospel of Jesus Christ: An evangelical celebration

We affirm that Jesus Christ is God incarnate (John 1:14). The virgin-born descendant of David (Rom. 1:3), he had a true human nature, was subject to the Law of God (Gal. 4:5), and was like us at all points, except without sin (Heb. 2:17, 7:26–28).

The gospel of Jesus Christ: An evangelical celebration

He has himself gone through the whole of human experience from trivial irritations of family life and the cramping restrictions of hard work and lack of money to the worst horrors of pain and humiliation, defeat, despair and death. When he was a man, he played the man. He was born in poverty and died in disgrace and thought it well worthwhile.

Dorothy Sayers

Remember, Christ was not a deified man, neither was he a humanized God. He was perfectly God and at the same time perfectly man.

C.H. Spurgeon

Christ was not half a God and half a man; he was perfectly God and perfectly man.

James Stalker