The second course, "Indigenous
Christology," centres on the Eucharist and seeks to connect the sacraments of the church to Indigenous identities, narratives and land.
Critique: An extraordinary and seminal work of simply outstanding New Testament scholarship, "Reading Mark's
Christology Under Caesar: Jesus the Messiah and Roman Imperial Ideology" is an impressively informative and superbly presented student that is unreservedly recommended for community, seminary, college, and university library New Testament Studies collections.
The next two chapters are a comparison to the early
Christology of Chao.
All contributors to the volume begin their essay investigating "the relationship between the
Christology of the Chalcedonian definition and their own contextual Christological observations and proposals" (3).
The reader will be impressed with the depth and breadth of Karkkainen's scholarship and his remarkable ability to integrate them all into a coherent articulation of
Christology and soteriology.
In his article, "The Lordship of Jesus and Secular Theology," Thomsen addresses the
Christology of Paul van Buren, one of the secular theologians emerging in the 1960s who was associated at least indirectly with the "death of God" phenomenon.
Talbert (religion, Baylor U., Texas) critiques two approaches in the debate about the development of
Christology among Jesus' earliest followers.
"Coptic
Christology" suggests a survey of historical theology in Christian Egypt.
Cooey effectively demonstrates the historical interrelationship between dissent and
Christology. She outlines the ways in which Christian individuals and groups have differed in regard to Jesus's identity, comparing the ancient Christologies of the apostle Paul, the Gnostics, the Manichees, and Augustine and the sixteenth-century conflicts between Erasmus and Luther, Calvin and Servetus, and Anabaptists and other Christians.
Thus, without a view of the mystery of the Church that is also supernatural and not only sociological,
Christology itself loses its reference to the divine in favour of a purely human structure, and ultimately it amounts to a purely human project: the Gospel becomes the Jesus-project, the social-liberation project or other merely historical, immanent projects, that can still seem religious in appearance, but which are atheistic in substance."
The resulting melange of epistemology; cosmology; anthropology (both philosophical and theological),
Christology; Spiritualism, and Protestant theology, has perplexed modern scholars who have recognized Weigel's importance, but disagreed concerning his significance.
One must carefully distinguish a purely empirical, scientific quest for the historical Jesus from what we know through faith--the New Testament's theology of Jesus--its
Christology.
Elevated to the episcopacy of the important see of Palestina Secunda, sometime between 538 and 544, John not only gathered these texts of Dionysius, he also lent his own Neochalcedonian
Christology to them in order to have one more apostolic authority from which to quote against the Monophysites of his day.
John McIntyre, The Shape of
Christology: Studies in the Doctrine of the Person of Christ, Edinburgh, T&T Clark, 1998, 342pp.
This theologoumenon lies at the heart of Karl Barth's
Christology, and indeed, as Bruce MacCormack claims in his comprehensive study of the genesis and development of Barth's theology in the crucial years between 1909 and 1936, marks a watershed in that it made the incarnation of the Logos into the contradiction of human existence the fundament and model of the analogia fidei: `With the adoption of the anhypostatic-enhypostatic model of
Christology, Barth's theology had moved into a new phase.
