Christology (Theology of Jesus Christ the Son)

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  What Every Christian Needs To Know About The Jewishness Of Jesus

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  If you were to ask ten people, Who started Christianity? you might hear ten voices giving the same quick response: Jesus. But those ten people would be wrong. Jesus wasn’t a Christian. Jesus lived and died as a Jew. Understanding the Jewishness of Jesus is the secret to knowing him better and understanding his message in the twenty-first century. Walking through Jesus’ life from birth to death, Rabbi Evan Moffic serves as a tour guide to give Christians a new way to look at familiar teachings and practices that are rooted in the Jewish faith and can illuminate our lives today. Moffic gives fresh insight on how Jesus’ contemporaries understood him, explores how Jesus’ Jewishness shaped him, offers a new perspective on the Lord’s Prayer, and provides renewed appreciation for Jesus’ miracles. In encountering his Jewish heritage, you will see Jesus differently, gain a better understanding of his message, and enrich your own faith.

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  Jesus The Priest

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  Following his critically acclaimed book Jesus the Temple, Nicholas Perrin here offers an insightful theological contribution to Jesus studies that synthesizes the best in traditional/conservative and liberal reconstructions of Jesus’s life and teaching. Some view Jesus as an eschatological prophet (conservative tradition) while others view him as a teacher of wisdom (liberal tradition). Perrin identifies the priesthood of Jesus as a mediating understanding that sheds crucial light on the kingdom of God. By viewing Jesus as priest, we understand that the central aim of God’s kingdom is not the salvation of individual souls or the creation of a better society but rather the establishment of authentic worship.

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  Miracles Of Jesus

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  Christians often view Jesus’s miracles simply as proofs of his divinity. However, as prolific author Vern Poythress shows in this new book, they also serve as “signs of redemption,” foreshadowing the salvation that Christ accomplished through his cross and resurrection. This means that the stories of Jesus’s miracles-like the calming of the storm or the feeding of the 5,000-are relevant for both Christians and non-Christians alike, clearly pointing to the gospel. After setting forth a framework for viewing all of Jesus’s miracles through this lens, Poythress then reflects on the meaning and significance of 26 distinct miracles recorded in the Gospel of Matthew-helping modern readers understand and apply them to their own lives today.

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  Jesus Behaving Badly

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  List Of Abbreviations
  1. Everybody Likes Jesus
  2. Revolutionary Or Pacifist? The King And His Kingdom
  3. Angry Or Loving? Prophet Of Israel’s Restoration
  4. Environmentalist Or Earth Scorcher? Killing Pigs And Cursing Trees
  5. Legalist Or Grace Filled? Be Perfect . . . Or Else?
  6. Hellfire Preacher Or Gentle Shepherd? Scaring The Hell Out Of You
  7. Antifamily Or Family Friendly? Who’s Your Daddy?
  8. Racist Or Inclusivist? Gentile Dogs And Other Riffraff
  9. Sexist Or Egalitarian? If We’re So Equal, Why Do The Boys Get All The Good Jobs?
  10. Was Jesus Anti-Semitic? Shepherd Of Israel’s Lost Sheep
  11. Failed Prophet Or Victorious King? Doomsday Prophet Of The End Of The World?
  12. Decaying Corpse Or Resurrected Lord? All The Eggs In One Easter Basket
  Discussion Questions
  Notes
  Scripture Index

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  Everybody likes Jesus. Don’t they?

  We overlook that Jesus was

  Judgmental-preaching hellfire far more than the apostle Paul
  Uncompromising-telling people to hate their families
  Chauvinistic-excluding women from leadership
  Racist-insulting people from other ethnic groups
  Anti-environmental-cursing a fig tree and affirming animal sacrifice
  Angry-overturning tables and chasing moneychangers in the temple

  He demanded moral perfection, told people to cut off body parts, made prophecies that haven’t come true, and defied religious and political authorities. While we tend to ignore this troubling behavior, the people around Jesus didn’t. Some believed him so dangerous that they found a way to have him killed.

  The Jesus everybody likes, says Mark Strauss, is not the Jesus found in the Gospels. He’s a figure we’ve created in our own minds. Strauss believes that when we unpack the puzzling paradoxes of the man from Galilee, we find greater insight into his countercultural message and mission than we could ever have imagined.

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  1 God One Lord Third Edition

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  A T&T Clark Title

  The book has taken its place among works on Jesus as one consistently cited, consistently read, and consistently examined in scholarly discourse.

  Hurtado examines the early cultic devotion to Jesus through a range of Jewish sources. Hurtado outlines an early ‘high’ Christological theology, showing how the Christ of faith emerges from monotheistic Judaism. The book has already found a home on the shelves of many in its two previous editions. In this new Cornerstones edition Hurtado provides a substantial epilogue of some twenty-thousand words, which brings this ground-breaking work to the fore once more, in a format accessible to scholars and students alike.

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  Sophia : The Hidden Christ Of Thomas Merton

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  While numerous studies have celebrated Thomas Merton’s witness as an interfaith pioneer, poet, and peacemaker, there have been few systematic treatments of his Christology as such, and no sustained exploration to date of his relationship to the Russian Sophia” tradition. This book looks to Thomas Merton as a “classic” theologian of the Christian tradition from East to West, and offers an interpretation of his mature Christology, with special attention to his remarkable prose poem of 1962, Hagia Sophia. Bringing Merton’s mystical-prophetic Vision fully into dialogue with contemporary Christology, Russian sophiology, and Zen, as well as figures such as John Henry Newman and Abraham Joshua Heschel, the author carefully but boldly builds the case that Sophia, the same theological eros that animated Merton’s religious imagination in a period of tremendous fragmentation and violence, might infuse new vitality into our own.

  A study of uncommon depth and scope, inspired throughout by Merton’s extraordinary catholicity.

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  Gospel According To Heretics

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  Since what Christian doctrine denies can be as important as what it affirms, it is important to understand teachings about Jesus that the early church rejected. Historians now acknowledge that proponents of alternative teachings were not so much malicious malcontents as they were misguided or even misunderstood. Here a recognized expert in early Christian theology teaches orthodox Christology by explaining the false starts (heresies), making the history of theology relevant for today’s church. This engaging introduction to the christological heresies is suitable for beginning students. In addition, pastors and laypeople will find it useful for apologetic purposes.

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  Everything You Always Wanted To Know About God But Were Afraid To Ask (Reprinted

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  With a healthy dose of wit and a heaping helping of wisdom, New York Times bestselling author Eric Metaxas answers questions about Jesus’ life, death, resurrection, and much more.

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  Puzzling The Parables Of Jesus

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  Modern scholarship on the parables has long been preoccupied with asking what Jesus himself said and what he intended to accomplish with his parables. Ruben Zimmermann moves beyond that agenda to explore the dynamics of parabolic speech in all its rich complexity. Introductory chapters address the history of research and distinguish historical from literary and reader-oriented approaches, then set out a postmodern hermeneutic that analyzes narrative elements and context, maps the sociohistorical background, explores stock metaphors and symbols, and opens up contemporary horizons of interpretation. Subsequent chapters then focus on one parable from early Christian sources (Q, Mark, Matthew, Luke, John, and the Gospel of Thomas) to explore how parables function in each literary context. Over all reigns the principle that the meaning or theological “message” of a parable cannot be extracted from the parabolic form; thus the parables continue to invite hearers’ and readers’ involvement to the present day.

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  Jesus The Storyteller

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  While it is widely acknowledged that Jesus told stories, there has not been much focus on why he did so and how these stories contributed to his ministry. Stephen Wright approaches this topic afresh to analyze how considering the parables as “stories” can help our understanding of Jesus and his mission. Wright begins by looking for insights in scholarship from recent decades on the parables and the historical Jesus. He goes on to imagine how these stories would have resonated with hearers in each of the Synoptic Gospels and considers the dynamics between Jesus and his hearers in different locations like Galilee and Jerusalem. Finally, Wright considers the purpose of these parables as an element of Jesus’ ministry and looks at Jesus himself as a storyteller. This book will provide a solid basis for understanding why Jesus spoke in parables and how this distinctive style of speech functioned in his ministry.

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  Rediscovering Jesus : An Introduction To Biblical Religious And Cultural Pe

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  Preface
  List Of Abbreviations
  Introduction: “My Jesus”

  Part I Introduction: Jesus In The Bible
  1. Mark’s Jesus
  2. Matthew’s Jesus
  3. Luke’s Jesus
  4. John’s Jesus
  5. Paul’s Jesus
  6. The Priestly Jesus
  7. The Jesus Of Exiles
  8. The Apocalyptic Jesus

  Part II Introduction: Jesus Outside The Bible
  9. The Gnostic Jesus
  10. The Muslim Jesus
  11. The Historical Jesus
  12. The Mormon Jesus
  13. The American Jesus
  14. The Cinematic Jesus

  Conclusion: “Our Jesus”
  Subject Index
  Scripture Index

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  “My Jesus I love thee, I know thou art mine.” So runs an old familiar hymn. But who is your Jesus? Matthew’s teacher? John’s Word made flesh? Hebrews’ great high priest? What if it turned out that your Jesus is a composite of your favorite selections from the New Testament buffet, garnished with some Hollywood and Americana? Rediscovering Jesus takes us on a gallery tour of biblical portraits of Jesus, from Matthew through Revelation. Our expert guides point out the background and highlights of each New Testament image of Jesus. Then we hit the streets to visit other houses of worship and their scriptures, examining the Jesus of the Book of Mormon and the Quran. Popping into a bookstore, we browse the latest on the Gnostic and the historical Jesus. Then we’re off on a walking tour of Jesus in America, followed by a film festival of Jesus movies. All along the way our tour guides describe and interpret, but also raise questions: How is this Jesus different from other portraits? If this were our only portrait of Jesus, what would our faith be like? Rediscovering Jesus is an enjoyable, informative and challenging look at how we encounter Jesus in Scripture and our culture. It takes us beyond other surveys in its unique probing of the differences our understanding of Jesus can make for faith and life. From the authors of Rediscovering Paul, this is an introduction to Jesus that guides us in our pilgrimage toward seeing Jesus truly.

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  4 Vision Quests Of Jesus

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  Christian theology as seen through the lens of Native American tradition

  A unique look at Christian biblical interpretation and theology from the perspective of
  Native American tradition, this book focuses on four specific experiences of Jesus as
  portrayed in the synoptic gospels. It examines each story as a “vision quest,” a universal
  spiritual phenomenon, but one of particular importance within North American indigenous
  communities.

  Jesus’ experience in the wilderness is the first quest. It speaks to a foundational Native
  American value: the need to enter into the “we” rather than the “I.” The Transfiguration is
  the second quest, describing the Native theology of transcendent spirituality that impacts
  reality and shapes mission. Gethsemane is the third quest. It embodies the Native tradition
  of the holy men or women, who find their freedom through discipline and concerns for
  justice, compassion, and human dignity. Golgotha is the final quest. It represents the Native
  sacrament of sacrifice (e.g., the Sun Dance). The chapter on Golgotha is a discussion of
  kinship, balance, and harmony: all primary to Native tradition and integral to Christian thought.

  For a broad, general readership, with possible secondary application in seminary and
  college classrooms.

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