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status generis and the status modi? What stages does he distinguish in the state of humiliation?
Is there any biblical proof for the virgin birth, except in the Gospels of Matthew and Luke? What
are the doctrinal bearings of this doctrine? Have the theories of the mythical origin of the idea
of the virgin birth been found adequate? What do we understand by Christ’s subjection to the
law? In what legal relation did He stand as Mediator during His humiliation? Was the human
nature of Christ inherently subject to the law of death? Did eternal death in the case of Christ
include all the elements that are included in the eternal death of sinners? How can the burial of
the Saviour be conceived of as a proof that He really died?
LITERATURE:
Bavinck, Geref Dogm. III, pp. 455-469; Kuyper, Dict. Dogm., De Christo II, pp. 59-
108; ibid., De Vleeschwording des Woords; Hodge, Syst. Theol. II, pp. 612-625; Shedd, Dogm.
Theol., pp. 330-348; McPherson, Chr. Dogm., pp. 321-326; Litton, Introd to Dogm. Theol., pp.
175-191; Pieper, Christl. Dogm. II, pp. 358-378; Schmid, Doct. Theol. of the Ev. Luth. Church, pp.
383-406; Valentine, Chr. Theol. II, pp. 88-95; Heppe, Dogm. der ev.-ref. Kirche, pp. 351-356;
Ebrard, Christl. Dogm. II, pp. 189-226; Mastricht, Godgeleerdheit, II, pp. 601-795; Synopsis
Purioris, pp. 262-272; Turretin, Opera, Locus XIII, Q. IX-XVI; Machen, The Virgin Birth of Christ;
Orr, The Virgin Birth of Christ; Sweet, The Birth and Infancy of Jesus Christ; Cooke, Did Paul
Know the Virgin Birth? Knowling, The Virgin Birth; Barth, Credo, pp. 62-94; Brunner, The
Mediator, pp. 303-376.