Translation of Jésus devant sa vie et sa mort.

Includes bibliographical references.

Jesus' Consciousness and the Faith of His Disciples -- The Gospel Itinerary -- Jesus and John the Baptist -- The Baptism of Jesus -- The Kingdom of God -- Jesus and Sinners -- The Sermon on the Mount -- The New Law -- The Profession of Faith at Caesarea -- The Son of Man -- Announcements of the Passion -- Awaiting the Son of Man -- The New Covenant -- The Son and the Father -- Index

What can we know about Jesus? Surely we can't draw up a biography of him or reconstruct his psychology. Still, between the bareness of chimeric agnosticism and the illusion of naïve literalism, it seems possible to discern the outline of a real life and the presence of genuine person. This book sets out, first, to grapple with the question of mythology as posed by Bultmann and his followers. The New Testament presents Jesus as divine person, the Son of God. Must we not shatter this idol, some ask, in order to rediscover faith? This is the problem of Jesus' personality and the way it reveals and communicate itself. To discuss these matters, we must necessarily pass through the consciousness of Jesus–a dangerous undertaking, since the world is ambiguous and the reality is finitely difficult to pinpoint. And yet the event related in the gospels has to have been truly lived by Jesus it has to have been his conscious life and death. Such a demonstration seems feasible from a study of the gospel texts which take into account the questions of exegesis and the values of spiritual experience. It underscores the profound coherence in the language of the gospels and shows how God revels himself in the countenance and the words of a man. In so doing, this important work on Christology provides guidance in the reading of the gospels and insight into the mystery of Jesus.