Christ — Neither God nor Man
At long last the time has come to stop considering the classical Christological creeds as though they were mausoleums, albeit of faith. And to read them between the lines, so to speak — that is, iconoclastically, in the light of the biblical principle according to which God is an iconoclastic word about man, and man an iconoclastic word about God.
The God in whom the human person is created is no God per se. Nor is the person insofar as it is human an entity of its own: created in the image of God, it is moreover created in the image of an imageless God. God and man refer to one another, iconoclastically, i.e. to the extent that they both are in the power of language. Even God is language (Jn 1). And just that is what is at stake in the central affirmation concerning the two natures of Christ: the human need not be ‘evacuated’ for the sake of the divine, nor does God need to be idolized at the expense of man. Christ is the measure of all that is. Not God. And not man, either.
In Christ, there is neither "Jew nor Greek" (Gal 3,28) — neither ‘God’ nor ‘man,’ if such terms must now be heard in keeping with the linguistic collapse of ontotheism and its inherent dualism or its no less inherent monism. Language is neither dualistic nor monistic , but essentially iconoclastic. So is — and was — Christology.
Gabriel Vahanian