دانلود کتاب The Jesus debate: a survey and synthesis /

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Preface 1 Author\'s Note 3
1. A Proposal 5 Jesus as one who mediates a new vision and praxis of our human relationship to God, to ourselves, to our social relations, and to our bodies and nature
PART ONE: AN OVERVIEW OF CONTEMPORARY APPROACHES TO JESUS
2. The New Interest in Jesus 15 Exploring how our modern turn to experience, our modern sensitivity to evil, and our new global awareness raise new questions about Jesus
3. Finding Our Way Among Modern Christologies 45 Exploring the continuum of modern approaches to Jesus: those rejecting modernity, those too uncritically accepting it,
and the critical \"centrist\" Christologies
4. A Possible Method for Christology 79 Christology as a critical, to-and-fro dialogue between the tradition dbd our contemporary experience, a dialogue facilitated through philosophical, historical, literary (aesthetic), practical, and global methods of analysis
5. Reflections on the Jesus Quest 90 The quest as a key example of the dialogue between tradition
and contemporary experience; the key phases of the quest; the roles the quest might play in today\'s Christology
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PARTTWO:LEADINGINTERPRETATIONSOF NEW TESTAMENT CHRISTOLOGY
New Testament Christology: The Literary-Critical
Contribution 115 Paul Ricoeur and David Tracy as leading literary-critical analysts; the pluralism of literary approaches; the key lessons
for a renewed Christology
New Testament Christology from an Historical, Psychosocial,
and Philosophical Perspective
Summarizing the results of the modern, historical-critical approach to the New Testament; complementing and correcting it through psychosocial approaches; exploring philosophical mediations of the Jesus event for today
The Practical Context of Jesus
The volatile, social world of Jesus\' day, and the various \"spiritual\" responses to it
The Message and Work of Jesus
An overview of the key themes and practices of Jesus—his spiritual outburst in his volatile, social world
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The Easter Experiences 220 What was the original \"model\" of the Easter experiences?; Easter as the transformation of Jesus and the early female and male disciples; the empty tomb and the Shroud
From Kerygma to Gospels
Exploring scholarly views on how our early Christology and soteriology took shape: the fidelity and near-infidelity of the New Testament to the Jesus event
New Testament Christology: A Contemporary Summary... 280 An author\'s personal attempt to mediate the results of the various approaches to New Testament Christology: The Jesus event as the disclosure of a new vision and praxis of our relations to God, to self, to society, and to the world (= Christology); the Jesus event as the therapy for our broken relations in these four human dimensions (= soteriology)
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PART THREE: JESUS IN THOUGHT
AND PRACTICE AFTER THE NEW TESTAMENT
Jesus and the Exploration of the Divine in Later
Christianity 299 Exploring the importance of the post-biblical tradition for today; the great debate over the kind of Divinity disclosed in Jesus; the correctives provided by the martyrs, mystics, and theologians
Jesus and the Exploration of the Self, Church, Society,
and Nature in Later Christianity 324 Continuing our exploration of the great debate; over the new
model of the self disclosed in the Jesus event, the new model of Church and society, and the new model of the world; the important corrective contributions of the saints, mystics, theologians, Reformers, and religious orders
Salvation and Spirituality in the Light of Jesus:
A Suggestion 343
Exploring how the soteriological dimension of the Jesus event took shape in later Christianity; some proposals for a renewed soteriology; integrating spirituality with Christology and soteriology
Jesus and the Divine in the Contemporary Debate 367 Exploring some contemporary challenges to the disclosure of
the Divine in the Jesus event: Does the Divine change and suffer?; the American feminist critique of our vision and praxis
of the Divine Presence, in the light of Jesus, and in the light of women\'s experience
Jesus and the Self in the Contemporary Debate 385 Two contemporary challenges to the new model of the self disclosed in the Jesus event: In what way is Jesus unique, especially in light of everyone\'s divine-human nature, and in light of the world\'s religions?; How important is Jesus\' maleness? Can a male Savior save women? (Continuing the feminist critique of Christology and soteriology)
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14. Jesus, Church, and Society in the Contemporary
Debate 401 Some new challenges for the new model of Church and society disclosed in the Jesus event: How must the Churches transform themselves to align themselves more fully with the Jesus event?; the emerging, new phenomenon of -critical\" Christians and their approaches to Church-participation; Where is the \"carrier\" of the Jesus-like community today: the debate between socialism and democratic capitalism?; Jesus
and nuclear ethics; continuing the feminist critique of Church
and society in the light of Jesus and women\'s experience
15. Jesus and Ecology in the Contemporary Debate 419 Exploring the intersection between today\'s new interest in ecology and the Jesus event; the hidden link between misogynism and the exploitation of the biosphere; the dialogue between Christology and the Native American critique of Christianity
Index of Subjects Index of Names
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