Contemporary Christologies: A Fortress Introduction
Overview
While many know of the signal contributions of such twentieth-century giants as Paul Tillich or Karl Barth or Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, the important work since their time often goes unnoticed until some major controversy erupts. Here is a smart and helpful survey of the chief approaches and thinkers in today’s understanding of the person, significance, and work of Jesus Christ.
Schweitzer offers an insightful introduction to the contemporary context of Christology, in which basic questions in the discipline (and soteriology) are being rethought in light of globalization, postmodernity, and the contemporary experience of evil. He then offers a kind of typology of the current approaches and voices:
- Jesus, Revealer of God (like the Gospel of John): Karl Rahner, Dorothee Soelle, Roger Haight
- Jesus, a Moral Exemplar (like Abelard): Rosemary Radford Ruether, Mark Lewis Taylor, Carter Heyward
- Jesus as Victor (like Origen): Luis Pedraja, James Cone, Elizabeth Johnson
- Jesus as Representative (like Anselm): Douglas John Hall, Marilyn McCord Adams, Jürgen Moltmann
- Jesus as Source of Openness (like Francis of Assisi): Raimon Panikkar, John B. Cobb, Jacques Dupuis
Schweitzer’s volume concludes with a reflection on the recent past and present imperatives of a discipline that virtually defines what Christianity has to offer the present age.
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- Presents a survey of the chief approaches to today’s understanding of Jesus Christ
- Offers an insightful introduction to the contemporary context of Christology
- Concludes with a reflection on past and present imperatives
Top Highlights
“while God the Father abandons Jesus here, they are simultaneously profoundly united in what they will” (Page 81)
“These choices reflect varying assessments of how Jesus as the Christ relates to the present. This book divides these ways into five types and assesses the strengths and weaknesses of each. A guiding conviction behind this arrangement is that each type primarily addresses a distinct kind of sin or evil. By lifting up the different kinds of sin and evil that different ways of understanding Jesus’ saving significance address, this book shows how these can correct and supplement each other. The different atonement models studied here should be seen as unfolding different aspects of Jesus’ saving significance rather than as mutually exclusive alternatives.” (Page vii)
“For Moltmann, how God is present and the meaning of life in the face of suffering and death form the ultimate horizon in which Jesus must be understood as the Christ.” (Page 76)
“Cone was primarily interested in discerning the place of Jesus and thus of God within the racial conflicts of the 1960s.” (Page 58)
“The Enlightenment was characterized by a critical attitude toward Christian faith, church authority, and teaching” (Page 2)
- Title: Contemporary Christologies: A Fortress Introduction
- Author: Don Schweitzer
- Publisher: Fortress Press
- Print Publication Date: 2010
- Logos Release Date: 2013
- Pages: 200
- Language: English
- Resources: 1
- Format: Digital › Logos Research Edition
- Subjects: Jesus Christ › Person and offices; Theology, doctrinal › History--20th century; Theology, doctrinal › History--21st century
- Resource ID: LLS:CONTCHRSCHWEITZER
- Resource Type: Monograph
- Metadata Last Updated: 2022-02-11T17:47:47Z