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Author Hall, Stuart George

Title Jesus Christ Today : Studies of Christology in Various Contexts
Published Berlin : Walter de Gruyter, 2009

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Description 1 online resource (396 pages)
Contents Frontmatter; Contents; Preface; Abbreviations and References; In Mermoriam Thomas Forsyth Torrance; Introduction; Did Jesus call himself 'Son' and 'Son fo Man'; The first Christologies: Exaltation and incarnation Or, From Easter to Christmas; An Orthodox contribution to a (post- )modern approach to Christology; Must the Gospels Agree?; The Nicene Creed as a symbol of unity in Christologie; Ephesus and Nestorius: A Christological misunderstanding; Chemists or terminologists?; A tuning-point in British Christology in the 19th century: Erskine, Irving and Campell; Adolf HarnackĖ€s Christology
The Christology of Karl BarthKarl Rahner and Hans Urs von Balthasar: Two Christological models which constructively accept modernity; Christ in Vatican Ii: Leading principles and their doctrinial unity in the different documents; Jesus and the Faith-History Problem Today; Who is Jesus for Muslims?; 'But you, who do you say that I am?'; The Christological formation of missional practice; A contemporary Christological Bacic Formula: Guidelines for an 'Inter-Contextual Christology'; Conclusion: One Christ, many contexts; Backmatter
Summary Jesus of Nazareth is a perennial subject of interest, and one of the most influential people that ever lived. The religious movement which flowed from him produced the Christian Church in all its various manifestations. Christian believers have in common a regard for Jesus as Lord and God, in some way a bodily appearance revealing the Father of the universe. Christian thinkers down the centuries have continually tried to define and explain who Jesus was and is. This book draws together some of the best modern thinking about the biblical evidence, the beliefs of the first few centuries when "or
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Subject Jesus Christ -- Person and offices -- Congresses
SUBJECT Jesus Christ fast
Subject RELIGION / Biblical Criticism & Interpretation / New Testament.
Christology
Christologie
Genre/Form Conference papers and proceedings
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9783110212778
3110212773