"How to regard Christ Jesus as the God who saves? In this fine study, Ian McFarland offers a contemporary answer to this question by way of learned and hugely instructive pursuit of what he styles a Chalcedonianism without reserve. Refusing to cleave thinking about Christian from thinking about salvation and anchoring the doctrine of the person of Christ in a trinitarian account of creation, McFarlands vibrant dogmatic argument for the continued viability of theological thinking in Chalcedonian tradition is a compelling and much needed intervention in contemporary Christological debates." -- Rev. Professor Philip G. Ziegler, University of Aberdeen

"Ian McFarland's The Word Made Flesh: A Theology of the Incarnation proposes a Chalcedonianism without reserve that develops the best of Orthodox, Catholic, and Reformation christological traditions in lively conversation with contemporary biblical scholars and theologians (as well as philosophers and natural scientists). McFarland's book is a clear headed, imaginatively written, bold re-thinking of how Jesus Christ informs and upholds a clear distinction between Creator and creature, as one hypostasis in two natures whose resurrection, ascension, and return are less further episodes in Jesus humanity than Gods complete vindication of this crucified Lord a humanity glimpsed in Scripture, baptism and eucharist, and most comprehensively our embodied logoi (as Maximus the Confessor puts it) participating in Gods logos become flesh. This is, in short, a veritable theological summa that will be central in future conversations and arguments about the Word made flesh."-- James J. Buckley, Professor Emeritus, Loyola University in Maryland