Jesus Christ today : studies of Christology in various contexts : proceedings of the Academie internationale des sciences religieuses, Oxford 25-29 August 2006 and Princeton 25-30 August 2007 / / edited by Stuart George Hall

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910824487803321
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Berlin ; ; New York, : W. de Gruyter, c2009
• ISBN: 1-282-07336-2; 9786612073366; 3-11-021277-3
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (396 p.)
• Collana: Theologische Bibliothek Topelmann ; ; Bd. 146
• Classificazione: BN 5305
• Altri autori (Persone): HallStuart George
• Disciplina: 232
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: 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 Harnack`s Christology -- The Christology of Karl Barth -- Karl 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
• Sommario/riassunto: 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 "orthodoxy" was being defined, the past two centuries when churchmen have responded to the challenge of modern rationalism, and some of the reactions to Jesus in the world-wide spread of modern Christianity and in Islam. It concludes with an attempt at a simple formula which might provoke and sustain faith in Jesus Christ in the most recent intellectual environment.