Incarnation--things relating to this

from comment 24 here http://www.calledtocommunion.com/2009/09/horton-on-being-made-one-flesh-with-christ/

 The incarnation is not Jesus possessing a human being or possessing a human body or possessing a human soul. The incarnation is the Logos becoming human, not through a change in the Logos, but by taking taking up a body and rational soul into His very act of existence, as I explained above. Union is not necessarily Leibnizian identity. A human being (with body and rational soul) is ipso facto a human person. The only way (if it could be) for God to make a zombie is either not to make a body, or not to make a rational soul. As soon as God joins a rational soul to a body, there is a human person; that existing being is ipso facto a human person.

from comment 30:

 Chrysostom teaches at one point (before Ephesus, of course) the following:“For by union and by conjunction God the Word and the flesh are one, not in any confused way, nor by an obliteration of the senses, but by a certain union that is indescribable and beyond understanding. . . . There was no possibility of raising [our fallen nature] again, unless He that fashioned it in the beginning should stretch His hand to it and remold it anew, by rebirth through water and the Spirit.”