Identity and the composite Christ: an incarnational dilemma

One way of understanding the reduplicative formula ‘Christ is, qua God,omniscient, but qua man, limited in knowledge’ is to take the occurrences of the‘qua’ locution as picking out different parts of Christ: a divine part and a humanpart. But this view of Christ as a composite being runs into paradox when combinedwith the orthodox understanding of the Incarnation, according to which Christ isidentical to the second person of the Trinity. In response, we have to choose betweenmodifying the orthodox understanding, adopting a philosophically and theologicallycontentious perdurantist account of persistence through time, or rejecting altogetherthe idea of the composite Christ.