The Future of Supralapsarian Christology

Recent years have seen a surge of interest among Christian theologians and scholars in related fields in supralapsarian Christology -- the idea that the Incarnation is logically prior to the fact of sin in God’s intentions for creation -- which is now arguably moving from a narrow thesis about the order of God’s intentions to a wider theological sub-discipline, with potentially far-reaching implications for many aspects of Christian theology and exegesis, and consisting of important internal debates and fault lines. This panel, including five recent contributors to this literature, will seek to chart a course for the future development of supralapsarian Christology. Four panelists -- Brendan Case, Collin Cornell, Philip Hussey, and Jordan Daniel Wood -- will make specific proposals regarding the development of supralapsarian Christology, and the session will conclude with a synthetic and constructive response by Edwin Chr. Van Driel.