TRIME SIZE 152 X 228 MM scottish scottish journal of journalof scottish journal of Volume 71 Number 4 2018 Volume 71 Number 4 2018 Articles 379 Barth backwards: reading the Church Dogmatics ‘from the end’ Rob McDonald 391 Covenantal history and participatory metaphysics: formulating a Reformed response to the charge of legal fi ction Jared Michelson 411 Infused virtue as virtue simply: the centrality of the Augustinian Volume defi nition in Summa theologiae I/2.55–67 Robert Miner 425 Condescension, anticipation, reciprocal ecstasies: theological 71 refl ections on early Christian readings of Isaiah 6 and Daniel 3 Bogdan G. Bucur Number Number 441 Dietrich Bonhoeffer and the necessity of kenosis for scriptural hermeneutics Nadine Hamilton 4 460 The eucharist in post-Reformation Scotland: a theological tale of harmony and diversity 2018 Paul T. Nimmo 481 Book reviews Cambridge Core For further information about this journal please go to the journal website at: cambridge.org/sjt 14468 312947 73 ./144 31C2:38,12947, 6C1D191218 312947 73 849 7 0 SJT 71(4): 425–440 (2018) © Cambridge University Press 2018 doi:10.1017/S0036930618000613 Condescension, anticipation, reciprocal ecstasies: theological reflections on early Christian readings of Isaiah 6 and Daniel 3 Bogdan G. Bucur Department of Theology, Duquesne University, Pittsburgh, PA 15282
[email protected] Abstract In the biblical theophanies of Isaiah 6 and Daniel 3, divine condescension and human ascent constitute reciprocal ecstatic moves towards a divine– human encounter. The christological interpretation, widespread in early Christian reception history, further discerns in Isaiah 6 and Daniel 3 an anticipation of the radical condescension of the Logos-made-human and, conversely, an anticipation of the deifying ascent of humanity in Christ.