CUR DEUS HOMO?

                                                               Outline Of Argument

I:                      The attempt at demonstrating the necessity of the Incarnation

II:                     Unbelievers' objections concerning the condescension of God

                                    but: (i) the humility and humiliation of God

                                    magnify God's grace

                                          (ii) it is appropriate for an act of

                                                disobedience to be put right by an act of supreme obedience

III:                  The inappropriateness of God's rescuing humankind through deputing human or angel instead of humbling himself

IV:                    The three-fold imprisonment from which humankind needs to be redeemed:

                                    (i) the enslavement of sin

                                    (ii) the just anger of God

                                    (iii) the power of the devil over sinners

V:                     The question of the devil's rights over humankind

VI:                    The humility of God and the impassibility of God

VII:                  The apparent injustice and unreasonableness of God's delivering up the Just Son

VIII:                 Sin and satisfaction

IX:                   The (im)possibility of redressing the disorder with the assistance of angels

X:                     Satisfaction as both the making good of a failure and the assuaging of affront or insult

XI:                   God's resolve to fulfil his purposes for us is not a constraint upon God but rather a self-imposed necessity

XII:                  The role of recompense in God's salvation

XIII:                 The mode of the Incarnation