Fidelity with Plausibility: Modest Christologies in the Twentieth Century

Voorkant
SUNY 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
Index
419
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Wesley J. Wildman is Assistant Professor of Theology at Boston University. He is coeditor with W. Mark Richardson of Religion and Science: History, Method, Dialogue.

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