Paul Scott, Identity and Coherence in Christology: One Person in Two Natures. New York: Routledge, 2024. 198 pp. $54.99.

Reviewed by L. J. Anderson, PhD Student, Liberty Theological Seminary

Summary

Paul Scott’s Identity and Coherence in Christology provides a philosophically rigorous and analytically careful examination of how Christ can be both fully divine and fully human without contradiction. Drawing from scholastic and analytic sources, Scott surveys several traditional and modern models, including reduplication, specification, and mereology (the philosophical study of parts and wholes, applied here to Christ’s natures), before ultimately advocating a semantic solution grounded in predicate modification.

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