Thinking of Christ: Proclamation, Explanation, Meaning

Book Overview

This is a textbook on Christology for the undergraduate, graduate, and seminary market written by eleven distinguished North American Roman Catholic theologians. The structure of the book and of the individual essays follows a pattern of recovery (analysis of the tradition), critique (consideration of special problems), and reconstruction (distinctive Christologies in the contemporary American context).

Part I, devoted to historical recovery, treats Jesus of Nazareth and the significance of historical Jesus research for Christology today; Christological developments resulting in the conciliar definitions of Nicaea and Chalcedon; and diverse conceptions of Christ's redemption in the early and medieval church. Part II treats four problems in modern debate: religious pluralism and Christian exclusivist claims; theological anti-Semitism embedded in Christological formulations; legitimation of male privilege via appeals to the masculinity of Jesus and Christ's headship of the church; the use of the Christ symbol to legitimate colonialism and racial exploitation. Finally, Part III offers two examples of contemporary Christologies of social transformation: mujerista Christology and black Christology.

Contributors: Lisa Sowle Cahill, Elisabeth Schussler Fiorenza, Roger Haight, Ada Maria Isasi-Diaz, Robert Lassalle-Klein, William Loewe, John Pawlikowski, Jamie Phelps, Rosemary Radford Ruether, Gerard Sloyan, and Tatha Wiley.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 082641530X
• ISBN13: 9780826415301
• Release Date: October 2003
• Publisher: Continuum
• Length: 272 Pages
• Weight: 0.86 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.9" x 9.3"

Customer Reviews

Review of T.Wiley, Thinking of Christ

I found this book to be an excellent description of the various ways of considering Christology.

Thinking of Christ

First and above all - the book is very readable. I also like the manner in which the 10 authors used history to expand explain their points. As a Priest I am very interstied in the development and the unerstanding of Jesus, esepcially as He lives in our present time. The book is esepcially helpful to me in explaining the Christology as it comes from above, and the contemporaty christology as it comes from below. VERY INTERESTING.