Christology : a biblical, historical, and systematic study of Jesus /

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Author / Creator:	O'Collins, Gerald.
Edition:	2nd ed.
Imprint:	Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2009.
Description:	xv, 385 p. ; 22 cm.
Language:	English
Series:	Routledge revivals
Subject:	Jesus Christ -- Person and offices. Jesus Christ -- History of doctrines. Jesus Christ. Christology. Theology, Doctrinal. History.
Format:	Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/7793671

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ISBN:	9780199557875 (pbk. : alk. paper) 019955787X (pbk. : alk. paper)
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references (p. [359]-361) and indexes.
Summary:	Tackling the key theological questions at the heart of the Christian faith, O'Collins draws on developments in recent scholarship to fully update this accessible guide to systematic Christology.

Table of Contents:

Abbreviations
1. Some Major Challenges
History
Philosophy
Language
Content, Emphases, and Context
2. The Jewish Matrix
Five Titles
Two Closing Comments
3. The Human History
Some Preliminaries
Proclaimer of the Kingdom
Personal Authority
Son of Man
Self-Identity
Faced with Death
Conclusion
4. The Resurrection
The Claim
First Ground for the Claim: The Appearances
The Appearances Challenged
A Secondary Sign
Other Factors
The Resurrection as Revealing
Resurrection as Redemptive
God's Activity
5. The Son of God
Dating the Title
The Title's Meaning
Naming the Son of God
6. Lord, Saviour, God, and Spirit
Lord
Further Appropriations
Saviour and God
Spirit
Trinity
7. To the First Council of Constantinople
Four Queries
Ambiguities and Intimations
Divinity and Humanity
8. Ephesus, Chalcedon, and Beyond
The Councils of Ephesus and Chalcedon
After Chalcedon
Into the Middle Ages
9. Medieval and Modern Christology
Thomas Aquinas
To the Reformation
The Background for Today
10. Divine and Human
Divinity
Humanity
Divine and Human
One Divine Person
Personal Pre-existence
Further Issues
11. Faith, Holiness, and Virginal Conception
The Faith of Jesus
The Sinlessness of Christ
The Grace of Christ
The Virginal Conception
12. Redeemer
The Human Need
Christ's Saving Work
Saved by Love
13. Universal Redeemer
The Redeemer of All
Grounds for a Universal Claim
The Salvation of the Non-evangelized
A Coda
14. The Possibilities of Presence
Chapters 2-13 on Christ's Presence
A Philosophy of Presence
The Revealing and Saving Presence of Christ
Three Further Advantages
Conclusion
Bibliography
Index of Names
Biblical Index

Christology : a biblical, historical, and systematic study of Jesus /

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