INCARNATION

(from Lat. éncarnari, to be made flesh; from in + caro, flesh), in Christian theology, the act by which the Second Person of the Ble ed Trinity a umed human form and human nature. In many other religions, and especially in those of India, are there accounts of the taking of human flesh by the gods in order to secure a fuller revelation to the world, but these differ e entially from the orthodox Christian belief in the I. of Jesus Christ, which lays stre on the fact that the Logos, eternally divine, then became also e entially human, so that Christ was ‘perfect God and perfect Man; one not by conversion of the Godhead into flesh, but by taking of the manhood unto God.’ Word’s Supper’), papal bull, thus com- “mencing, i ued yearly against heretics, / 4863-1770. 2° 37’ W.), town, Lancashire, England;