Ethics in the Presence of Christ

by Christopher R. J. Holmes

Publisher:

T&T Clark

, 2012

Overview

By casting the identity of Christ as the One-Who-Is-Present, Holmes concentrates on how Christ ministers his power, truth, and love in the Spirit for the sake of the transformation of human life. As present, Christ's work is both finished and unfinished, complete and open-ended; as endlessly contemporary, it is constitutive of reality and so (re-)shapes the ethical landscape and the moral life. In revisiting the doctrine of Christ's contemporaneity with its ethical implications firmly in view, Holmes’s work fills a lacuna in the contemporary literature on Christian ethics. In conversation with John’s Gospel, the priority of Christology comes to drive the very shape of moral questions for today. Here the compelling task of ethics is a matter of becoming aligned with—and transparent to—Christ’s own presence and so to Christ’s work of making all things new.

Product Details

• Title: Ethics in the Presence of Christ
• Author: Christopher R. J. Holmes
• Publisher: T&T Clark
• Print Publication Date: 2012
• Logos Release Date: 2014
• Language: English
• Resources: 1
• Format: Digital › Logos Research Edition
• Subject: Christian ethics
• ISBNs: 9780567491732, 0567491730
• Resource ID: LLS:ETHICSCHRSTHOLMES
• Resource Type: Monograph
• Metadata Last Updated: 2023-03-02T22:05:33Z

About Christopher R. J. Holmes

Christopher R. J. Holmes (ThD, Wycliffe College and University of Toronto) is associate professor in systematic theology at the University of Otago in New Zealand. He is an Anglican priest, and he is the author of The Holy Spirit, Ethics in the Presence of Christ, and Revisiting the Doctrine of the Divine Attributes: In Dialogue with Karl Barth, Eberhard Jüngel, and Wolf Krötke.