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Jesus Symbol of God surveys scriptural data, the key moments in the development of doctrine, and the distinctive horizons of our contemporary world to develop a comprehensive and systematic Christology for our time. The task of Christology is to explain what it means to say Jesus is the bearer and revealer of God in the Christian Community, the decisive mediation of God's salvation - or, in other words, the symbol of God.

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• Preface(p. xi)
• Part I Questions of Method
• 1. Theology And Christology(p. 3)
• Christian Theology(p. 3)
• Jesus Christ as Symbol of God(p. 12)
• Christology and Theology(p. 15)
• The Situation of Christology(p. 17)
• 2. The Method of Christology(p. 27)
• A Genetic Structure of Understanding(p. 28)
• A Hermeneutical Method of Critical Correlation(p. 40)
• The Criteria for Christology(p. 47)
• Part II Biblical Sources
• 3. Appropriating Jesus In Christology(p. 55)
• A Historical-Hermeneutical Approach(p. 55)
• Jesus as Prophet(p. 60)
• Jesus as Teacher(p. 66)
• Jesus the Healer(p. 71)
• Jesus as Savior or Liberator(p. 74)
• The Jesus to Be Appropriated(p. 78)
• Conclusion(p. 86)
• 4. The God of Jesus(p. 88)
• God in Jewish Tradition(p. 89)
• God in Jesus' Ministry(p. 95)
• Synthetic Reflections on the God of Jesus(p. 113)
• 5. Jesus' Resurrection(p. 119)
• A Hermeneutical Perspective(p. 120)
• The New Testament Witness(p. 129)
• Theoretical Reconstruction of the Genesis of Faith in the Resurrection(p. 140)
• The Significance of the Resurrection(p. 147)
• 6. The Pluralism of New Testament Soteriologies And Christologies(p. 152)
• Preliminary Reflections(p. 153)
• Five New Testament Christologies(p. 155)
• The Significance of the Pluralism of New Testament Christologies(p. 178)
• Part III Classical Tradition
• 7. The Structure of Christology(p. 187)
• The Experiential and Historical Character of Every Encounter with God(p. 188)
• Jesus as the Medium of Christian Faith(p. 195)
• The Structure of the Religious Symbol(p. 196)
• The Symbolic Structure of Christology(p. 202)
• 8. Development of Classical Soteriology(p. 213)
• Eastern Soteriology(p. 215)
• Western Soteriology(p. 223)
• The Reformers(p. 232)
• Experience of Salvation in the Tradition(p. 237)
• 9. Development of Classical Christology(p. 244)
• New Testament Sources and Cultural Intelligibility(p. 245)
• Development and the Soteriological Norm(p. 249)
• Jesus and God(p. 256)
• The Constitution of Jesus Christ(p. 261)
• Conclusion(p. 270)
• 10. Interpreting Nicaea and Chalcedon(p. 273)
• The Meaning of Nicaea(p. 274)
• The Meaning of Chalcedon(p. 285)
• Conclusion(p. 297)
• Part IV Constructive Christology
• 11. Beyond Schleiermacher and Barth(p. 301)
• Parameters of Modern Christology(p. 302)
• Toward Postmodern Christology(p. 317)
• Christology in an Increasingly Postmodern Context(p. 330)
• 12. Jesus as Savior(p. 335)
• Foundations for a Postmodern Soteriology(p. 337)
• The Tradition(p. 339)
• Currents in Modern Soteriology(p. 343)
• Jesus and Salvation(p. 354)
• 13. Liberation and Salvation: Christology and the Christian Life(p. 363)
• The Varieties of Liberation Theology(p. 365)
• The Dynamics of Liberation Theologies(p. 370)
• The Liberationist Interpretation of Jesus(p. 376)
• Salvation and the Christian Life(p. 382)
• Eschatology(p. 389)
• 14. Jesus And The World Religions(p. 395)
• Religious Pluralism and the Christological Question(p. 395)
• Assumptions and Premises(p. 399)
• The Normativity of Jesus(p. 403)
• Pluralism and Dialogue(p. 411)
• A New Context for Christology(p. 421)
• 15. The Divinity of Jesus Christ(p. 424)
• Pluralism in Christology(p. 425)
• Logos Christology(p. 431)
• Spirit Christology(p. 445)
• Conclusion(p. 465)
• 16. Trinity(p. 467)
• The Question(p. 467)
• Trinity from Below(p. 471)
• The Point of Trinitarian Theology(p. 480)
• Conclusion(p. 490)
• Index(p. 493)

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Haight (Weston Jesuit School of Theol.) offers a major survey of Christological and closely related soteriological developments beginning with biblical texts themselves, through Eastern and Western Christological and soteriological discussions, Nicene-Chalcedonian creedal definitions, and finally, an analysis of modern/postmodern soteriologies and christologies. His discussion focuses more clearly on Christological than on soteriological issues, with Christology viewed as a "subdiscipline" of theology. Whether discussing the New Testament or later developments, the author concludes that Christologies have been consistently pluralistic, with no final criteria for determining their validity. Though he asserts that Christology's moorings must be based in the "historical" Jesus, Christology is not merely a historical encounter: rather, it is "existential-theological." Creeds, he insists, remain "symbols" rather than descriptive statements. In "Constructive Christology," Haight turns to the interaction of Christological and soteriological issues in modern theology, beginning with divergent theologies of Schleiermacher and Barth as a background, followed by discussions in contemporary theological concerns. Notably, Haight insists that "pluralism" must play a major role in constructing any modern Christology. This, along with his understanding of Christ as "symbol," surely constitutes a challenge to contemporary Catholic and Evangelical theology. A welcome addition to current Christological debates, and a must for all theological libraries. Undergraduate through faculty. R. F. Berkey Mount Holyoke College

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Roger Haight, S.J., is a Jesuit priest and professor of historical and systematic theology at the Weston Jesuit School of Theology, Cambridge, Massachusetts.