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incarnation

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    1. The act of incarnating.
    2. The condition of being incarnated.
  1. Incarnation Christianity. The doctrine that the Son of God was conceived in the womb of Mary and that Jesus is true God and true man.
  2. A bodily manifestation of a supernatural being.
  3. One who is believed to personify a given abstract quality or idea.
  4. A period of time passed in a given bodily form or condition: hopes for a better life in another incarnation.

 
 

Central Christian doctrine that God became man in the form of Jesus, the son of God and the second person of the Holy Trinity. In Jesus the divine and human nature are joined but neither is changed or diminished. This difficult doctrine gave rise to a variety of heresies, some denying Jesus's divine nature, others his human nature. For orthodox believers the conflict was settled at the Councils of Nicaea (AD 325) and Chalcedon (AD 451).

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Columbia Encyclopedia: incarnation,
the assumption of human form by a god, an idea common in religion. In early times the idea was expressed in the belief that certain living men, often kings or priests, were divine incarnations. India and Egypt were especially rich in forms of incarnation in men as well as in beasts. Incarnation is found in various phases of Greek religion, in which the human body of a god was a disguise or a temporary means of communication. Among western cultures the most widely accepted belief in incarnation is in that of Jesus, held by Christians to be God in the flesh, partaking wholly both of divinity and of humanity, except in so far as human beings have a propensity to sin. This is the accepted understanding of the biblical “The Word was made flesh.” See avatara.


 
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IN BRIEF: Embodiment of a spirit in earthly form.

pronunciation According to Christian Jesus, conceived in the womb of Mary, is the incarnation of God.

 
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Incarnation, which literally means embodied in flesh, refers to the conception, and live birth of a sentient creature (generally human being) who is the material manifestation of an entity or force whose original nature is immaterial.

While Christianity, Hinduism, and Buddhism are perhaps the most widely-known traditions to employ this concept within the context of their respective belief systems, they are by no means the only ones to do so.

Buddhism

In the Buddhist tradition, an incarnation is a person believed to be the next rebirth of someone deceased, in most cases a lama or other important master/teacher. This concept differs however from reincarnation, since the Buddhist teaching of anatta implies that there is no fixed soul that could move from one life to another.

See also: Rebirth (Buddhist) and Zurmang gharwang

Christianity

The doctrine of the Incarnation of Christ is central to the traditional Christian faith as held by the Roman Catholic Church, the Eastern Orthodox Church, and most Protestants. Briefly, it is the belief that the Second Person of the Holy Trinity, also known as the Son or the Logos (Word), "became flesh" when he was miraculously conceived in the womb of the Virgin Mary. In the Incarnation, the divine nature of the Son of God was perfectly united with human nature in one divine Person. This person, Jesus Christ, some churches believe was both truly God and truly man. This doctrine is specifically referenced in the Bible in John 1:14 and Colossians 2:9. It is known as the hypostatic union.

Hinduism

For discussion of the incarnation concept in Hinduism, see avatar.

Rastafari

For the Rastafari movement, Haile Selassie is God incarnate in flesh, much in the same way as seen by Christians with Jesus, and dealing with the same problem of how someone can be human and God at the same time for Rastas Selassie is a reincarnation of Jesus Christ.

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Translations: Incarnation

Dansk (Danish)
n. - inkarnation, legemliggørelse

Nederlands (Dutch)
incarnatie, vleeswording

Français (French)
n. - (Relig, fig) incarnation

Deutsch (German)
n. - Inkarnation

Ελληνική (Greek)
n. - ενσάρκωση, (θρησκ.) ενανθρώπηση (του Χριστού)

Italiano (Italian)
incarnazione

Português (Portuguese)
n. - encarnação (f)

Русский (Russian)
воплощение, олицетворение

Español (Spanish)
n. - encarnación

Svenska (Swedish)
n. - inkarnation

中文(简体) (Chinese (Simplified))
赋予肉体, 化身, 具人形

中文(繁體) (Chinese (Traditional))
n. - 賦予肉體, 化身, 具人形

한국어 (Korean)
n. - 육체를 갖추게 함, 화신, 육아 발생, 성육신(하느님의 아들 예수가 육신과 인간성을 가지고 태어난 일)

日本語 (Japanese)
n. - 肉体を与えること, 権化, 化身, 具体化, 肉体化

العربيه (Arabic)
‏(الاسم) تجسيد, تجسد المسيح‏

עברית (Hebrew)
n. - ‮התגלמות, תהליך ההגלדה, התגלמות האל הבן באדם בדמותו של ישו (נצרות)‬


 
 

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