24 Mar 2026 (Wed) 

What is Deep Incarnation, and What are the Criticisms?

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Date:24 Mar 2026 (TUE)
Time:14:00-15:30
Location:CEC1002
Speaker: Prof. Niels Henrik Gregersen
Language: English 

The Christology of deep incarnation takes its point of departure in John 1:14: “The Word (logos) became flesh (sarx), and dwelt among us.” Deep incarnation is the view that by assuming the particular life-story of the humanity of Jesus, God’s own Logos or Wisdom conjoins the material conditions of God’s world of creation ( “all flesh”), shares and ennobles all biological life-forms (“grass” and lilies”), and experiences the pains of all sentient creatures (“sparrows and foxes”). In this view, incarnation is the story of God’s reach into the very tissues of material and biological existence. The lecture will lay out the basic contours of deep incarnation, and also discuss and respond to critics of deep incarnation, some wanting to argue for an individualist view of incarnation, others wanting to do away with the divinity of incarnation.

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Prof. Niels Henrik Gregersen

Niels Henrik Gregersen (University of Copenhagen) is professor of systematic theology, and a co-leader of the Copenhagen Centre for Science and Faith. He was the initiator behind the idea of deep incarnation.