Encountering Jesus Christ
Subtitle: rethinking christological faith and commitment
By: Donald L. Gelpi.
Series: Marquette studies in theology -- no. 65
Publisher: Marquette University Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Milwaukee, Wis
Language: eng
Number of pages: 640
ISBN-13: 9780874627428
Subjects: Jesus Christ -- Person and offices; Bible. -- N.T. -- Criticism, Narrative
Description: "In this book I argue, in agreement with the great American philsopher of religion Josiah Royce, that Christianity exemplifies a religion in search of a metaphysics, i.e., of an integrated, rational way of talking about God, self, other people, and the world - in other words, about any reality whatever. I also argue that in the past theologians have tried to interpret Christian religious experience with seriously flawed philosophical categories which lead to theological dead ends. In my judgement, dualistic patterns of philosophical thinking have in the past caused the greatest havoc and have brought Christian faith into needless disrepute. Dualistic patterns of thinking conceive two interrelated realities in such a way as to make their relationship to one another subsequently unintelligible. Dualism roots itself in another philosophical fallacy: namely, essentialism. Essentialism fallaciously transforms human cognitive modes of perception into realities which exist apart from thought." -- Preface.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Preface; title: The new arianism : reflections on christological drift; title: Esus' human nature as experience : philosophically, developmentally, and historically considered; title: The christology of hope : the Pauline Letters and the book of Revelaton; title: Narrative christology : the Gospel of Mark; title: Narrative christology : the Gospel of Matthew; title: Narrative christology : the Gospel of Luke and the book of Acts; title: The analogy of christological knowing : the faith of the Synoptic Gospels; title: Narrative christology : the Gospel of John; title: Doctrinal christology : rethinking Chalcedon; title: Doctrinal christology : salvation through Jesus Christ; title: Practical christology.