Incarnation (Christianity)

===Effect===
The incarnation implies three facts: (1) The divine person of Jesus Christ; (2) The human nature of Jesus Christ; (3) The [[hypostatic union]] of the human with the divine nature in the divine person of Jesus Christ. Without diminishing his divinity, he added to it all that is involved in being human.<ref name="Packer">{{Cite web|url=https://www.christianitytoday.com/ct/2004/march/25.72.html|title=Incarnate Forever|first=J. I.|last=Packer|website=ChristianityToday.com|accessdate=December 22, 2021}}</ref> In Christian belief it is understood that Jesus was at the same time both fully God and fully human, two natures in one person.<ref name=":0">{{Cite web|url=https://www.archbishopofcanterbury.org/speaking-and-writing/speeches/archbishop-justin-addresses-muslim-council-wales|title=Archbishop Justin addresses Muslim Council of Wales|website=The Archbishop of Canterbury|accessdate=December 22, 2021}}</ref> The body of Christ was therefore subject to all the bodily weaknesses to which human nature is universally subject; such are hunger (Matthew.4:2), thirst (John 19:28), fatigue (John 4:6), pain, and death. They were the natural results of the human nature he assumed.<ref name="Drum">[http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/07706b.htm Drum, Walter. "The Incarnation". ''The Catholic Encyclopedia''] Vol. 7. New York: Robert Appleton Company, 1910. 20 Octobrt 2016</ref> Approaches such as [[Nestorianism]], Ebonism, [[Arianism]], Appoliniarianism, and [[Eutychianism]] have attempted understanding of the two natures of Christ; some of them have been condemned traditionally as heretical.<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Marbaniang |first1=Domenic |title=In Jesus Humanity and Divinity United |journal=Revive |date=May 2011 |volume=4 |issue=5 |page=3}}</ref> In ''A Kryptic Model of the Incarnation'', [[Andrew Loke]] evaluates many of these attempts and suggests a possible Divine Preconscious Model (DPM) that postulates that at the Incarnation, Christ's mind included the divine conscious and the divine preconscious along with a human preconscious.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Loke |first1=Andrew |title=A Kryptic Model of the Incarnation |date=2016 |publisher=Routledge |location=Oxon}}</ref>

The incarnation of Jesus is also one of the key factors which, alongside humans made in the image and likeness of God, forms Christian Anthropology. Specifically, incarnation is vital for understanding the concept of [[Divinization (Christian)|Divinisation]] of the Man, most well and elaborately developed in Orthodox Christianity and most well expressed by Church Fathers, such as [[St. Athanasius of Alexandria]] ("Therefore He was not man, and then became God, but He was God, and then became man, and that to deify us"<ref>{{Citation |last=Athanasius |title=Against the Arians |chapter-url=http://www.ccel.org/ccel/schaff/npnf204.xxi.ii.i.xi.html |chapter=Discourse I, Paragraph 39 |access-date=2012-11-06 |author-link=Athanasius of Alexandria}}</ref>), [[St Cyril of Alexandria]] ("For we too are sons and gods by grace, and we have surely been brought to this wonderful and supernatural dignity since we have the Only Begotten Word of God dwelling within us."<ref>{{Cite book |last=of Alexandria |first=Cyril |title=On the Unity of Christ |publisher=St. Vladimir's Seminary Press |year=1995 |isbn=978-0-88141-133-1 |location=Crestwood, NY |pages=80}}</ref>) [[Divinization (Christian)#Patristic writings|and numerous others]].