Jesus Christ Today

This book is the fruit of discussion by leading thinkers reflecting on the person and work of Jesus Christ. It examines recent developments in research about Jesus Christ, in the Bible, the early church, and in the modern period of Christian theology, with special chapters on Jesus in Islam in the modern missionary movement and in contemporary African theology, and an attempt at a core statement, displaying what is permanent about Jesus in many different contexts.

Autorentext

Stuart George Hall, University of London and University of St Andrews, U.K.

Zusammenfassung

Jesus of Nazareth is a perennial subject of interest, and one of the most influential people that ever lived. The religious movement which flowed from him produced the Christian Church in all its various manifestations. Christian believers have in common a regard for Jesus as Lord and God, in some way a bodily appearance revealing the Father of the universe. Christian thinkers down the centuries have continually tried to define and explain who Jesus was and is. This book draws together some of the best modern thinking about the biblical evidence, the beliefs of the first few centuries when orthodoxy was being defined, the past two centuries when churchmen have responded to the challenge of modern rationalism, and some of the reactions to Jesus in the world-wide spread of modern Christianity and in Islam. It concludes with an attempt at a simple formula which might provoke and sustain faith in Jesus Christ in the most recent intellectual environment.

Inhalt

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