Thinking Christ : christology and contemporary critics /

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Author / Creator:	Barter Moulaison, Jane, 1969-
Imprint:	Minneapolis : Fortress Press, ©2012.
Description:	vii, 183 pages ; 23 cm
Language:	English
Subject:	Jesus Christ -- History of doctrines -- Early church, ca. 30-600. Jesus Christ -- Person and offices. Jesus Christ. Nicene Creed. Nicene Creed. Christology. Theology, Doctrinal. History.
Format:	Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/13176732

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ISBN:	9780800698737 0800698738
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references (pages 169-178) and indexes. committed to retain from JKM Seminaries Library 2023 JKM University of Chicago Library
Summary:	"Jane Barter Moulaison's remarkable book engages contemporary critical understandings of Jesus Christ including postcolonial, feminist, pluralist, ecological, and socialist to argue that the core convictions of traditional Christology remain a viable, valuable, and even indispensable witness to the gospel in an imperiled world. Contemporary theology often makes a virtue of deconstructing traditional claims about the person and work of Christ. Claims about the central significance of Jesus Christ appear to be oppressive, intolerant, and even violent. Jane Barter Moulaison engages several contemporary christological critiques of classical Christology and argues that such critical theologies are not undermined by the claim of Christ's central significance but are rather radicalized by it. She ably re-reads the tradition that seeks to interpret Christ's saving activity in light of several contemporary theological and political concerns. In so doing, she suggests that there are extraordinary resources available to those who long for political and material transformation precisely through the abandonment of spiritualized answers to Jesus' question: 'Who do you say that I am?' -- Publisher description.

Table of Contents:

Acknowledgments
Introduction
Transcending the Limits of Privilege
The Importance of Incarnation
The Gifts of Nicene Theology
Christ as Exemplum and Sacramentum
The Virtue of Humility
Reading the Text of Scripture and the Text of the World
What Is Theological Critique?
The Design of This Book
1. "We Believe in One Lord, Jesus Christ": Proclaiming Christ's Lordship in the Midst of Empire
Postcolonialism and Empire Analysis
Contemporary Responses to Empire
Augustine's Ambiguous Relationship with Imperial Power
Augustine's Political Theology
Conclusion: Confessing Christ as Lord in the Midst of Empire
2. "Begotten of the Father before All Worlds": Jesus Christ and Creation
Ecotheology and Sacramental Christology
Basil on the Diversity and Design of Nature
The Imago Dei and Likeness to God
Creation as Sign and Sacrament
Conclusion: Asceticism, Incarnation, and the Flourishing of Creation
3. "By Whom All Things Were Made": Use and Enjoyment of Theological Language
Religious Longing and Linguistic Representation
Using the Things of the World
Critiquing and Ordering Desire
Scripture and Signs
Conclusion: Gender as Provisional Sign
4. "Very God of Very God": Proclaiming Christ's Divinity in a Pluralist Age
Unity and Particularity in the Meaning of Religion
Tolerance as a Secular Value
Athanasius and What It Means to Be Human
Divine Immanence and Transcendence
Conclusion: Confessing the Crucified One in Humility
5. "He Was Crucified for Us under Pontius Pilate": Proclaiming the Cross in a Violent World
Models of Atonement
Demystifying the Cross
Atonement as Recapitulation
Conclusion: God's Power in Suffering
6. "To Judge the Quick and the Dead": Christ and the Redemption of Memory
Augustine and the Gift of Memory
The Problematic Nature of Forgiveness
The Economy of Forgiveness
Memory and Charity
Memory and Eucharist
The Eternal and the Mundane
Conclusion: Memory and the Future
Conclusion. "Inventory the Heritage"-Christology and Critique
Notes
Bibliography
Index

Thinking Christ : christology and contemporary critics /

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