Christology, Ancient and Modern: Explorations in Constructive Dogmatics (Los Angeles Theology Conference Series, Band 1) - Softcover

Sonderegger, Katherine; Torrance, Alan J.; Huntsinger, David; Leithart, Peter J.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0310514967 ISBN 13: 9780310514961

Verlag: Zondervan Academic, 2013

Inhaltsangabe

A Fresh Look at the Doctrine of Christ.

Christology was the central doctrine articulated by the early church councils, and it remains the subject of close theological investigation today.

Christology, Ancient and Modern—the first volume in a series of published proceedings from the annual Los Angeles Theology Conference—brings together conference proceedings, surveying the field and articulating the sources, norms, and criteria for constructive theological work in Christology.

The ten diverse essays in this collection include discussions on:

• The types of historical Christologies and evaluations of various approaches to the theology of Christ.
• A close look at the trajectory and divergence of modern denominational understandings of Christ's work and person.
• Discussions of implications and challenges to specific Christologies regarding detailed exegetical considerations.

Each of the essays collected in this volume engage with Scripture as well as with others in the field—theologians both past and present, from different confessions—in order to provide constructive resources for contemporary systematic theology and to forge a theology for the future.

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Über die Autorinnen und Autoren

Alan J. Torrance (DTheol, University of Erlangen-Nurnberg) is Professor and Chair of Systematic Theology at the University of St. Andrews and is an ordained minister in the Church of Scotland. He is the author or editor of several books, including Persons in Communion: An Essay on Trinitarian Description and Human Participation.

 

Peter J. Leithart (PhD, University of Cambridge) is President of Theopolis Institute and serves as Teacher at Trinity Presbyterian Church in Birmingham. He is the author of several books, including?The Kingdom and the Power, Creator: A Theological Interpretation of Genesis 1,?Defending Constantine: The Twilight of an Empire and the Dawn of Christendom, and?Baptism: A Guide from Life to Death.

Oliver D. Crisp (PhD, University of London; DLitt University of Aberdeen) is Professor of Analytic Theology at the Logos Institute for Analytic and Exegetical Theology, St. Mary's College, the University of St. Andrews, Scotland. He is author of numerous books in analytic and systematic theology, including Analyzing Doctrine: Toward a Systematic Theology; Deviant Calvinism: Broadening Reformed Theology; Divinity and Humanity: The Incarnation Reconsidered; God Incarnate: Explorations in Christology; Retrieving Doctrine: Essays in Reformed Theology; and Revisioning Christology: Theology in the Reformed Tradition. Together with Fred Sanders, he is co-founder of the Los Angeles Theology Conference.

Fred Sanders?(PhD, Graduate Theological Union) is professor of theology in the Torrey Honors College at Biola University in La Mirada, California. He is author of numerous books including?The Triune God?in the New Studies in Dogmatics series;?The Deep Things of God: How the Trinity Changes Everything;?Union with Christ and the Life of Faith;?The Holy Spirit: An Introduction; and Fountain of Salvation: Trinity and Soteriology. He is coeditor of?Jesus in Trinitarian Perspective: An Introductory Christology?and?Retrieving Eternal Generation. He is also the co-founder of the Los Angeles Theology Conference. 

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Christology, Ancient and Modern

explorations in constructive dogmatics

By Oliver D. Crisp, Fred Sanders

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Copyright © 2013 Oliver D. Crisp and Fred Sanders
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Contents

Acknowledgments............................................................
9
List of Contributors.......................................................
10
Abbreviations..............................................................
12
Introduction...............................................................
13
1. DESIDERATA FOR MODELS OF THE HYPOSTATIC UNION Oliver D. Crisp..........
19
2. SALVATOR MUNDI Three Types of Christology George Hunsinger............
42
3. THE HUMILITY OF THE SON OF GOD Katherine Sonderegger...................
60
4. THE OBEDIENCE OF THE ETERNAL SON Catholic Trinitarianism and Reformed 
Christology Scott R. Swain and Michael Allen..............................
74
5. EXALTATION IN AND THROUGH HUMILIATION Rethinking the States of Christ 
Jeremy R. Treat............................................................
96
6. "WE SAW HIS GLORY" Implications of the Sanctuary Christology in John's 
Gospel Peter J. Leithart..................................................
115
7. THE THEANDRIC UNION AS IMAGO DEI AND CAPAX DEI Jason McMartin..........
136
8. CHRISTOLOGY AND CONCILIAR AUTHORITY On the Viability of Monothelitism 
for Protestant Theology Jordan Wessling...................................
151
9. JESUS' NEW RELATIONSHIP WITH THE HOLY SPIRIT, AND OURS How Biblical 
Spirit-Christology Helps Resolve a Chalcedonian Dilemma Telford C. Work...
171
10. RECLAIMING THE CONTINUING PRIESTHOOD OF CHRIST Implications and 
Challenges Alan J. Torrance...............................................
184
Subject Index..............................................................
205
Author Index...............................................................
209

CHAPTER 1

DESIDERATA FORMODELS OF THEHYPOSTATIC UNION

Oliver D. Crisp

Thus the official record of both substances represent him as both manand God: on the one hand born, on the other not born: on the onehand fleshly, on the other spiritual: on the one hand weak, on theother exceedingly strong: on the one hand dying, on the other living.That these two sets of attributes, the divine and the human, are eachkept distinct from the other, is of course accounted for by the equalverity of each nature.–Tertullian

These are my principles, and if you don't like them ... well, I haveothers.–Groucho Marx

On what basis should we construct our Christologies? What methodshould we adopt? To what authorities should we appeal? These may seemlike questions that admit of obvious answers, but in the history of moderntheology, they have been given anything but traditional responses. Somewant to develop Christologies on the basis of what can be shown via historicalinvestigation independent of any appeal to traditional theologicalauthority, such as the catholic creeds, or the Bible understood as ChristianScripture. Usually, this involves an appeal to a certain cluster of practicesand methodological assumptions that are loosely collected togetherunder the name Historical Biblical Criticism (or HBC). Some (thoughby no means all) practitioners of HBC seem to think that this is the onlyviable means by which to get at what can be known about the historicalJesus. This often goes hand-in-hand with a rather condescending attitudetoward theological accounts of Christ that take, say, the Bible as Scriptureor the catholic creeds as data for the generation of theological claims aboutChrist. A celebrated example of this can be found in the work of RudolfBultmann, who writes:

Also finished by knowledge of the forces and laws of nature is faith inspirits and demons. For us the stars are physical bodies whose motion isregulated by cosmic law; they are not demonic beings who can enslavemen and women to serve them.... Likewise, illnesses and their cures havenatural causes and do not depend on the work of demons and on exorcisingthem. Thus, the wonders of the New Testament are also finishedas wonders; anyone who seeks to salvage their historicity by recourse tonervous disorders, hypnotic influences, suggestion, and the like only confirmsthis.... We cannot use electric lights and radios and, in the eventof illness, avail ourselves of modern medical and clinical means and at thesame time believe in the spirit and wonder world of the New Testament.

Accounts of the person of Christ that begin with history and progressto theological claims about Christology are usually termed "Christologiesfrom below." Those that begin with certain theological givens, data thatare thought to be divine revelation or approved and authoritative theologicalstatements that depend on divine revelation like the creeds, are usuallycalled "Christologies from above." Neither term is helpful as a descriptionof what the particular theological trajectories involve. Christologies frombelow often make tacit assumptions about who Christ is at the outset, justas Christologies from above make judgments about how to treat differingreports about Christological texts in the canonical Gospels. And, for themost part, sophisticated Christology involves both textual work (includingthe sort of work familiar to practitioners of HBC) as well as appeals towhat we might call ecclesiastical tradition, broadly construed.

Nor is it true that approaches to Christology that privilege a method"from below" will inevitably yield "lower" Christologies than those thatadopt a "from above" approach. (Here "lower" and "higher" refer towhere one pegs Christ metaphysically. If a particular Christology assumesthat he is more than merely human, it is a "higher" Christology than onein which he is assumed to be merely human.) This may often be the case,but it need not be. There is certainly nothing like an entailment between,say, Christology "from below" and low Christology, or, for that matter,between Christology "from above" and high Christology. We can pointto historic examples that buck this trend, the supreme instance of whichis the disciples of Jesus that became the apostles of the early church. Theirknowledge of Christ was largely (though not exclusively) "from below,"so to speak. But they came to think of Christ in the most exalted terms, asthe Son of God. As Richard Bauckham puts it, the "earliest Christologywas already the highest Christology." He goes on to say that this

was not a mere stage on the way to the patristic development of ontologicalChristology in the context of a Trinitarian theology. It is already afully divine Christology, maintaining that Jesus Christ is intrinsic to theunique and eternal identity of God. The Fathers did not develop it somuch as transpose it into a conceptual framework more concerned withthe Greek philosophical categories of essence and nature.

There are also historic examples of those whose Christology emphasizesa "from above" approach, but whose conclusions are not as high asclassical Chalcedonian Christology. Arianism might be thought of as acandidate here, where certain metaphysical assumptions...

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• Verlag: Zondervan Academic
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2013
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0310514967
• ISBN 13: 9780310514961
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Auflage: 1
• Anzahl der Seiten: 224
• Herausgeber: Crisp Oliver D., Sanders Fred
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