Fidelity with Plausibility: Modest Christologies in the Twentieth CenturySUNY Press, 15 jan 1998 - 441 pagina's The task of interpreting the religious significance of Jesus Christ takes shape in this book with the tension determined by two goals: fidelity to the classical Christological tradition, which draws our attention to Jesus in the first place, and plausibility with respect to all forms of contemporary knowledge. To ignore the classical tradition is to assume uncritically that contemporary plausibility structures are beyond question, while to forsake plausibility is to embrace the irrationalism of the theological ghetto-dweller. This book argues that maintaining this tension in our time can be achieved only with a modest interpretation of Jesus Christ, one that repudiates the hermeneutical absolutism associated with affirming that Jesus Christ is uniquely, exhaustively, unsurpassably significant for revelation and salvation. |
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Introduction to Part I | 17 |
Christology and the Historical Jesus | 23 |
Strategies for Managing Dependence | 26 |
Criticism of the Extant Dependence Strategies | 40 |
Troeltsch on the Dependence of Faith and Dogmatics upon History | 46 |
Christology and the History of Religions | 65 |
The Theology of the History of Religions | 66 |
Supernaturalism and the History of Religions | 82 |
The Myth of God Incarnate | 195 |
Jesus as Inspired | 200 |
Jesus Inspiration as Divine Love Incarnate | 211 |
The Logic of Modest Incarnational Christologies | 217 |
Christ as Principle of Creative Transformation | 221 |
Identification of Jesus as Christ | 224 |
Affirming Christian Uniqueness | 231 |
Modest Christological Solutions to Internal Challenges | 238 |
The Development of Doctrine and the History of Religions | 90 |
Christology and the Sciences | 103 |
The Philosophical Sciences | 104 |
The Natural Sciences | 117 |
The Human Sciences | 121 |
Conclusion | 139 |
Modest Christology and the Resolution of the Crisis of Plausibility in Contemporary Christology | 141 |
Introduction to Part II | 143 |
The Absolutist Principle and Modest Christologies | 147 |
The Origin and Structure of the Absolutist Principle | 148 |
Absolutist Christology | 158 |
Modest Christology | 171 |
Incarnational and Inspirational Modest Christologies Two Case Studies | 191 |
The Logic of Modest Inspirational Christologies | 193 |
Christological Dependence on Knowledge of Jesus | 240 |
Reassessing Christological Development | 260 |
The Universal and the Particular | 276 |
Assessment of These Three Perspectives | 281 |
Modest Christological Solutions to External Challenges | 289 |
Evolutionary Biology and Cosmology | 304 |
The Modest Consensus | 325 |
Conclusion | 345 |
Modest Christologies and the Quest for a Believable Jesus | 346 |
Approaching the Conceptual Heart of Modest Christologies | 357 |
Notes | 371 |
Bibliography of Works Cited | 405 |
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Fidelity with Plausibility: Modest Christologies in the Twentieth Century Wesley J. Wildman Gedeeltelijke weergave - 1998 |
Fidelity with Plausibility: Modest Christologies in the Twentieth Century Wesley J. Wildman Gedeeltelijke weergave - 1998 |
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