The Oxford Handbook of Christology

by Francesca Aran Murphy

Publisher:

Oxford University Press

, 2015

Overview

This book has 40 chapters, each written by a scholar with expertise on the person and work of Christ. The book is divided into seven sections. The first section is by historical biblical scholars, and it is about Jesus Christ in the Old and New Testaments. The second is written by patristic scholars, and it deals with the formation of the doctrines of the person of Christ and the atonement between the First Council of Nicaea in 325 and the eve of the Second Council of Nicaea, which brought the patristic era to an end. The third is by medieval theology scholars, and its chapters tackle the development of the understanding of who Christ was and of his atoning work from the iconophiles who gathered at Nicaea II (787) through Anselm, Bonaventure, and Aquinas to the late Middle Ages and the mystical Christology of Ruusbroec. The fourth section treats the Christologies of the Protestant Reformers. The fifth section tackles the new developments in thinking about Christ, which have emerged in the modern and the postmodern eras. The sixth section explains how beliefs about Jesus Christ have affected music, poetry, and the arts. The seventh and concluding section locates Christology within systematic theology, asking how it relates to Christian belief as a whole.

Key Features

• Presents a comprehensive book on the subject of Christology
• Provides a wide array of topics on Christology which seek to help many a student through their essays and exams
• Offers deep and well written works which will also enrich young theology professors as they prepare for teaching Christology

Contents

• Part I The Bible
• Part II Patristic Christology
• Part III Mediaeval Christology
• Part IV Reformation and Christology
• Part V Modern and Postmodern Christology
• Part VI Imagining the Son of God in Modernity
• Part VII The Grammar of Christology: Christological Norms

Product Details

• Title: The Oxford Handbook of Christology
• Author: Francesca Aran Murphy
• Series: Oxford Handbooks
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Print Publication Date: 2015
• Logos Release Date: 2021
• Pages: 670
• Era: era:contemporary
• Language: English
• Resources: 1
• Format: Digital › Logos Reader Edition
• Subjects: Jesus Christ › Person and offices; Christianity
• ISBNs: 9780199641901, 9780198800644, 0199641900, 0198800649
• Resource ID: LLS:OXFORDHBKXOLOGY
• Resource Type: Monograph
• Metadata Last Updated: 2024-03-25T20:34:27Z

About Francesca Aran Murphy

Francesca Aran Murphy (PhD, King’s College, London) is a professor of systematic theology at the University of Notre Dame and the author of several books, including Christ the Form of Beauty. She previously taught at the School of Divinity, History, and Philosophy at the University of Aberdeen.