Synopses & Reviews
Christology defines the very heart of the Christian faith. Traditionally the study of the person and work of Christ has been understood largely as an exercise in biblical exegesis or historical and doctrinal analysis. Rarely, if ever, has Christology focused on the changing cultural paradigms that have deeply influenced the development of human knowledge and self-understanding. This unique volume by Colin Greene reverses that trend and, in line with developments in modern cultural theory, explores the interfaces between successive cultural contexts and the story of Jesus to which the Scriptures bear witness.Starting with an examination of the three main christological trajectories that have dominated the history of Christology -- cosmological Christology, political Christology, and anthropological Christology -- Greene proceeds to concentrate on the subtle and complex linkages between Christology and the sociopolitical paradigms that have bolstered the epistemological assumptions of modernity.Greenebs wide-ranging study closes with a creative exploration into how Christology might once again provide us with a Christ-centered vision of reality.
Table of Contents
Christology-the nature of the task -- Three christological trajectories -- The engagement with modernity; the search for cultural paradigms. Christology and the enlightenment -- Christology and religious experiene -- Christology and history -- Christiology and self-transcendence -- Christology and human liberation -- Christology and gender -- The engagement with postmodernity : deconstructing the cultural paradigms. Christology and the end of the enlightenment -- Jesus Christ the true paradigm -- The engagement with postmodernity-Christology on the way -- And where to now?