---
title: 'Cur Deus Homo?'
type: pdf
hasMedia: true
requiresPurchase: false
authors:
- 'John Williamson Nevin'
date: 1851-05-01
collection: 'Archives'
subcollection: '19th century'
topics:
- 'Deity, and Person and Work of Christ'
- 'Atonement'
scriptures:
- 'John 1'
- 'Romans 5'
- 'Philippians 2'
url: https://confessional.org/archives/19th-century/nevin-1851-cur-deus-homo
---

# Cur Deus Homo?

Survey of the theological debate whether the Son would have become incarnate absent Adam's fall, reviewing patristic, scholastic, Reformation and modern positions.

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