scandal of particularity

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英文释义

名词 n.
  1. The paradox inherent in the idea of a particular individual human (Jesus of Nazareth) incarnating the eternal divine God.
    — 1994: A materialism […] was supposed to be what science favoured: and the ‘scandal of particularity’, God becoming incarnate in Christ in human history, was indeed regarded as a scandal — that is, absurd — by contemporary intellectuals. — Richard Swinburne, Reason and the Christian Religion (Oxford 1994, p. 1)

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Calque of German Ärgernis der Einmaligkeit
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