Belief that Jesus was conceived by the Holy Spirit
The Annunciation as depicted by Guido Reni, 1621
The virgin birth of Jesus is the Christian and Islamic doctrine that Jesus was conceived by his mother, Mary, through the power of the Holy Spirit and without sexual intercourse.[1] Christians regard the doctrine as an explanation of the mixture of the human and divine natures of Jesus.[2][1] The Eastern Orthodox Churches accept the doctrine as authoritative by reason of its inclusion in the Nicene Creed,[2] and the Catholic Church holds it authoritative for faith through the Apostles' Creed as well as the Nicene. Nevertheless, there are many contemporary churches in which it is considered orthodox to accept the virgin birth but not heretical to deny it.[3]
The narrative appears only in Matthew 1:18–25 and Luke 1:26–38,[4] and the modern scholarly consensus is that it rests on slender historical foundations.[5] The ancient world didn't possess a thoroughly modern understanding that male semen and female ovum were both needed to form an embryo;[6] this cultural milieu was conducive to miraculous birth stories,[7] and tales of virgin birth and the impregnation of mortal women by deities were well known in the 1st-century Greco-Roman world and Second Temple Jewish works.[8][9]
The Quran asserts the virgin birth of Jesus, deriving its account from the 2nd century AD Protoevangelium of James,[10] but denies the Trinitarian implications of the gospel story (Jesus is a messenger of God but also a human being and not the Second Person of the Christian Trinity).[11]
^ abCarrigan 2000, p. 1359.
^ abWare 1993, p. unpaginated.
^Barclay 1998, p. 55.
^Hurtado 2005, p. 318.
^Bruner 2004, p. 37.
^Lincoln 2013, pp. 195–196, 258.
^Schowalter 1993, p. 790.
^Lachs 1987, p. 6.
^Casey 1991, p. 152.
^Bell 2012, p. 110.
^Hulmes 1993, p. 640.
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