While many know of the signal contributions of such
twentieth-century giants as Paul Tillich or Karl Barth or Pierre
Teilhard de Chardin, the important work since their time often goes
unremarked until some major controversy erupts. Here is a smart and
helpful survey of the chief approaches and thinkers in today's
understanding of the person, significance, and work of Jesus
Christ. Schweitzer offers an insightful introduction to the
contemporary context of Christology, in which basic questions in
the discipline (and soteriology) are being rethought in light of
globalization, postmodernity, and the contemporary experience of
evil. He then offers a kind of typology of the current approaches
and voices: - Jesus, Revealer of God (like the Gospel of John):
Karl Rahner, Dorothee Soelle, Roger Haight - Jesus, a Moral
Exemplar (like Abelard): Rosemary Radford Ruether, Mark Lewis
Taylor, Carter Heyward - Jesus as Victor (like Origen): Luis
Pedraja, James Cone, Elizabeth Johnson - Jesus as Representative
(like Anselm): Douglas John Hall, Marilyn McCord Adams, Jurgen
Moltmann - Jesus as Source of Openness (like Francis of Assisi):
Raimon Panikkar, John B. Cobb, Jacques Dupuis Schweitzer's volume
concludes with a reflection on the recent past and present
imperatives of a discipline that virtually defines what
Christianity has to offer the present age. Chapter 1 Adobe Acrobat
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"Surveys succeed when they illuminate the character of a given
historical epoch and inspire readers to explore the original works
they examine. Most surveys, in my experience, fail on both counts.
They fail spectacularly when they function as substitutes for their
own primary sources. Professor Schweitzer's book seems to me an
exception. His generalizations about the post-War period in
Christological thought are well worth contemplating; and his brief,
interesting introductions to the thinkers whom he has chosen to
study ought certainly to send his readers to the originals."
-Douglas John Hall, C.M. Professor of Theology Emeritus McGill
University, Montreal "Five major trajectories in christology are
here explored in the works of fifteen leading Protestant and
Catholic theologians from around the world. Well researched and
deftly portrayed, Don Schweitzer invites readers to consider how
these theologies have arisen from the life and social context of
each theologian and how they address the animating concerns that
define our age." -Bradford Hinze Professor of Theology Fordham
University
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