Jesus,9780192893161

Jesus

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ISBN13: 9780192893161
ISBN10: 0192893165
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Pub. Date: 2002-03-28
Publisher(s): Oxford University Press
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Summary

This Oxford Reader brings together an extensive range of ancient and modern documents to convey the many ways in which the figure of Jesus has stimulated and provoked responses over the last 2,000 years. It features more than 340 extracts, including familiar material from key texts in the history of doctrine alongside a diverse sampling of devotional, popular, liturgical, historical-critical, philosophical, and mystical texts. Selections include extracts from poems, songs, and plays, as well as from polemics, commentaries, manifestos, treatises, letters, novels, liturgies, and creeds. The rich and complex variety of responses to Jesus is represented in Christian, Jewish, Islamic, Hindu, Buddhist, and Zoroastrian texts.

Table of Contents

General Introduction 1(12)
PART I. Biblical and Patristic: To AD 451
A. The Life of Jesus
Canonical
13(1)
The Birth of the Messiah
13(1)
Jesus' Baptism
14(1)
Parables of the Kingdom
14(1)
The Beatitudes
15(1)
The Lord's Prayer
15(1)
The Little Apocalypse
16(1)
Casting out Demons
16(1)
Healing the Sick
17(1)
The Feeding of the Five Thousand
18(1)
Calming the Storm
18(1)
Peter's Confession
19(1)
The Transfiguration
19(1)
The Way, the Truth, and the Life
20(1)
The Last Supper
21(1)
The Garden of Gethsemane
21(1)
The Crucifixion
22(1)
The Resurrection
22(1)
The Road to Emmaus
23(1)
The Great Commission
24(1)
The Ascension
25(1)
Extra-Canonical
25(1)
Other Words
26(1)
Other Deeds
26(1)
Jesus as a Child
27(1)
Jesus as Gnostic Teacher
28(2)
Jesus' Appearance
30(1)
Jesus Rising
31(2)
B. Jesus the Saviour
Jesus Saves
33(1)
God's Light
33(1)
The Enduring Rock
34(1)
The Sacrificial Lamb
35(1)
Our King and Helper
36(1)
The Variety of Salvation
37(1)
Adoring the Cross
38(1)
Participating in Christ
39(1)
Christ in his People
39(1)
The Body of Christ
40(1)
Dying with Christ
41(1)
Eating Christ
42(1)
Helping Christ
43(1)
The Whole Christ
44(2)
The Sweet Exchange
46(1)
Emptying and Exaltation
46(1)
The Sweet Exchange
46(2)
Likeness for Likeness
48(1)
Washing the Washer
48(1)
Born for Rebirth
49(1)
Enslaved for Slaves
49(1)
Unveiling
50(1)
The Unveiling of Christ
50(1)
Baptismal Renovation
51(1)
Restoring the Image
52(2)
Desire and Knowledge
54(2)
Christ the Sun
56(1)
Christ and the Cosmos
56(1)
Christ and Cration
57(1)
Recapitulation
57(2)
Reversing Adam
59(1)
C. Typology and Apology
Jesus and Judaism
60(1)
The Servant of the Lord Foretold
60(1)
Shadow and True Form
61(1)
The True Passover
62(2)
Spiritual Meaning
64(2)
A Jewish Report
66(1)
Yeshu's Guilt
66(1)
Against the Pagans
67(1)
The Foolishness of Wisdom
67(1)
The Offence of Incarnation
68(1)
Roman Persecution
68(2)
Christ the Judge Foretold
70(1)
The Seeds of the Logos
71(1)
A Vergilian Baptism
72(1)
The Fount of Light
73(3)
D. The Development of Christology
In the Beginning
76(1)
True Humanity
77(1)
True Suffering
77(1)
Christ Uncrucified
78(1)
Jesus' Continence
79(1)
True Flesh
80(2)
True Embodiment?
82(2)
True Divinity
84(1)
The Pardox of Incarnation
84(1)
The Ineffability of Incarnation
85(1)
The Making of the Son
86(1)
Against Arius
87(1)
The Consubstantial Son
88(1)
Arianism Resurgent
88(1)
Homoian Arianism
89(1)
Neo-Arianism
90(1)
Nicene Renaissance
91(1)
Towards Chalcedon
91(1)
Full Humanity
91(2)
Divinity and Humanity in the Gospels
93(2)
The Birth of the Messiah
95(1)
Assumption of Humanity
96(2)
Two Natures United
98(2)
Unconfused and Inseparable
100(5)
PART 2. Byzantine and Early Medieval: 451-1208
A. Contemplating Christ
Transfiguration and Ascent
105(1)
The Light of Christ's Face
105(1)
The Hope of Glory
106(1)
A Shining Garment
107(1)
Eagerly Seeking Christ
108(2)
Illumined by the Passion
110(1)
Jesus Prayer
111(1)
Ceaseless Meditation
111(1)
The Heart's Occupation
112(1)
Meditation and Humility
113(1)
We Beheld his Glory
113(1)
Let us Follow
114(1)
Sharing Christ's Anguish
115(1)
Christ Born in the Soul
116(1)
Christ Little and Weak
117(1)
B. Christ and Culture
The Unburning Coal
118(1)
Son of the Cool Wind
119(1)
Helm of Heaven
120(1)
Our Chevalier
121(2)
C. Byzantine and Early Medieval Debates
After Chalcedon
123(1)
Christ is not Two
123(1)
The Diversity in Christ
124(2)
The Hypostatic Union
126(1)
Two Wills in Christ
127(1)
The Orthodox Faith
128(2)
Adoring Christ's Humanity
129(1)
On Divine Images
130(1)
Mementoes of Christ
131(2)
Western Christology
132(1)
Against Ambiguity
133(1)
Christ's Adoptive Humanity
134(1)
Christ's Adopted Body
135(1)
A Christological Vision
136(1)
Christ's Death a Satisfaction
137(2)
Christ's Death the Fount of Love
139(1)
Against Adoption
140(2)
The Eucharist
142(1)
Tasting Flesh and Blood
142(1)
The Figure of a Mystery
143(1)
Making Christ's Body
144(2)
D. Christ beyond Christianity
Jewish
146(1)
Discrediting Jesus
146(3)
Disputing Christ
149(1)
Zoroastrian
150(1)
The Implausibility of Incarnation
150(1)
Islamic
151(1)
The Qur'an
151(1)
Muhammad and Christ
152(1)
Christ and Sufism
153(1)
The Wisdom of Jesus
153(4)
PART 3. Later Medieval and Renaissance: 1209-1516
A. Following Christ
Remembrance
157(1)
Bethlehem at Greccio
157(1)
Gifts of the Magi
158(3)
Christ's Appearance
161(1)
Jesus the Prophet
162(1)
Jesus' Escape from Folly
163(2)
The Magnitude of Christ's Sorrow
165(1)
Christ's Seven Afflictions
166(3)
Savage Torture
169(2)
The Crucifixion Deception
171(1)
The Return to Heaven
172(1)
Christ Triumphant
172(2)
Meditation
174(1)
Intoxicated by Christ
174(1)
Suckling Christ
175(1)
Continuous Contemplation
175(2)
To See the Face of Christ
177(1)
The Soul's Journey into God
178(2)
Christ's Sweet Mercy
180(2)
Drinking from Christ
182(1)
Imitation
183(1)
Imitating the Humility
183(1)
Wounded with Christ
184(1)
Imitation over Contemplation
184(1)
Modern Devotion
185(1)
Christ a Ladder
186(1)
Attaining to the Likeness of Christ
187(2)
Passing through Christ's Life
189(1)
The Love of Christ
189(1)
Christ our Mother
189(2)
Christ's Labour Pains
191(1)
Jesus the Friend
192(2)
B. The Benefits of Christ's Passion
Christ's Daily Humility
194(1)
Transubstantiation
195(1)
Corpus Christi
195(2)
Merit and Satisfaction
197(3)
Christ's Heartbeats
200(1)
Christ's Maximal Humanity
201(2)
C. Jesus and Judaism
No Revelation in Jesus
203(1)
The Jews not Deicides
204(5)
PART 4. Reformation and Counter-Reformation: 1517-1600
A. Christ and his Benefits
Against Scholasticism
209(1)
Sin, Grace, and Salvation
210(1)
Salvation and the Creed
211(3)
Only Faith
214(1)
Victim and Victor
215(1)
Theology of the Cross
216(1)
The Bitter Christ
217(1)
Free Election
218(2)
B Christ in Word and Sacrament
Christ and the Word
220(1)
Christ's Absence
221(2)
Exhibiting without Containing Grace
223(3)
Eating, Dwelling, and Washing
226(1)
The Sacrifice of the Mass
226(2)
Torture and the Eucharist
228(2)
C Christ in Two Natures
The Unity of the Natures
230(2)
The Immeasurable and the Measurable
232(1)
Ubiquitous Humanity?
233(2)
Errors concerning the Union
235(1)
Communication between the Natures
236(2)
King amid the Kine
238(2)
D. Pursuing Christ
Filling up Christ
240(1)
Hunting Christ
241(2)
Imitating Christ
243(2)
Imagining Christ
245(1)
Awakened by Christ
246(2)
Dancing with Christ
248(1)
Reading Christ
249(6)
PART 5. Early Modernity: 1601-1789
A. The Drama of Christ
Christ's Stage
255(1)
Dialogue with the Devil
256(3)
Christ Narcissus
259(3)
B. Crucified for Me
Christ's Blood
262(1)
The School of Love
262(1)
Love Defined
263(1)
Love so Amazing
263(1)
Love Christ's Name and Nature
264(2)
Love Unknown
266(2)
The Power of the Cross
267(1)
The Punishing Cross
268(1)
Crucified with Christ
269(2)
Blest Cross
271(1)
C. Union with Christ
Pietist
272(1)
The Bridegroom's Arrival
272(2)
All for Sinner's Gain
274(2)
Hearts Submitting to Christ
276(2)
Nothing but Jesus
278(1)
Christ in Me
279(2)
Catholic
280(1)
Christ's Second Body
281(1)
Christ the Door
282(2)
Anglican
284(1)
Keeping Close to the Union
284(1)
No Union so Knitteth
285(1)
Puritan
285(1)
Christ's Kisses
286(1)
The Bridegroom's Departure
287(2)
One with Christ
289(1)
Radical
290(1)
Christ Born in the Soul
290(1)
The Birth of Christ in the Believer
291(1)
The Spiritual Dispensation
292(2)
D. Discussing Doctrine
The Father's Self-Knowledge
294(2)
An Outline of Christology
296(2)
Humiliation and Exaltation
298(2)
The Limitations of Atonement
300(3)
E. The Enlightenment
Copernican Christ
303(1)
Christ Simplified
304(1)
Christ and Archimedes
305(2)
Against Atonement
307(2)
Christ Falsified
309(2)
Jesus the Jew
311(2)
Christ the Charlatan
313(2)
Christ's Distance
315(2)
The Revolutionary Christ
317(4)
PART 6. The Nineteenth Century: 1790-1913
A. The Historical Jesus
The Invention of Christ?
321(1)
The Idea of the Son of God
321(3)
Christ in the Unfolding of Spirit
324(2)
The Last Wish of Religion
326(1)
The Heart's Invention
327(2)
A Translation of the Rule of Virtue
329(1)
Inventing Jesus
330(1)
Christ's Unavoidable Historicity
331(2)
Reconstructing Jesus
333(1)
Another Testament of Christ
333(2)
A Mythical Transfiguration
335(2)
A Rational Transfiguration
337(1)
The Historical Kernel
338(2)
Hero of the Passion
340(1)
Christ the Communist
341(1)
Jesus the Jew
342(2)
One Unknown
344(3)
B. Humility
Jesus the Child
347(1)
The Creator in the Cradle
347(1)
The Wounded Child
348(2)
The Crown of Roses
350(1)
Little Jesus
351(1)
Divinity and the Limitations of Humanity
352(1)
Lowly Majesty
352(1)
The Self-Limitation of the Divine
353(2)
The Development of God-Humanity
355(1)
Christ Only Human
356(2)
Against Humility
358(1)
Was Jesus Gentle?
358(2)
The Anti-Christ
360(4)
C. Christ and the Spirit
The Spirit of Christ
364(1)
Christ's Fallen Nature
364(2)
Christ's Spiritual Presence
366(3)
The Power of God in Christ
369(1)
The Impact of Christ's Spirit
370(2)
The Development of Doctrine
371(1)
Preserving the Picture
372(1)
Christ Advancing
373(2)
Christ's Enduring Words
375(2)
The Gospel's Embodiment
377(2)
Freeing the Kernel
379(2)
Christ Betrayed
381(1)
Jesus' Simple Teaching
382(1)
Deds not-Doctrine
383(2)
The Teacher of True Morality
385(3)
D. Life in Christ
Conversion
388(1)
Personal Saviour
388(1)
Jesus Taking Possession
389(2)
Ongoing Conversion
391(1)
Contemporaneity with Christ
391(3)
Participation
394(1)
Christ's Second Incarnation
394(1)
Incorporation and Unification
395(2)
Breathing Christ
397(1)
Created for Christ
397(1)
Representing the King
398(2)
A Vocation of Love
400(2)
E. Looking Eastwards
Returning Christ Eastwards
402(2)
Translating Christ
404(1)
Incorporating Christ
405(2)
Embracing Christ
407(6)
PART 7. The Twentieth Century: 1914-2000
A. Crisis
Christ the Crisis
413(4)
B. The Historical Jesus?
Against History?
417(1)
The Message not the Man
417(2)
The Earthly Jesus and the Exalted Lord
419(2)
Faith-Image and History
421(2)
Questing for the Historica Jesus
423(1)
A Framework
423(2)
A Mediterranean Jewish Peasant
425(2)
A Marginal Jew
427(2)
The Jesus Revolution
429(2)
The Sacred Mushroom
431(3)
C. Christ and Salvation
Justification and Sanctification
434(1)
Christ and New Being
434(2)
Substitutionary Atonement
436(1)
Jesus as Lord
437(2)
Becoming Lesser Christs
439(1)
The Crucified and the Crusading Mind
440(1)
Christ's Mercy
441(2)
Liberation
443(1)
Recognizing the Poor
443(1)
Liberating Jesus
444(2)
Hiding Jesus
446(1)
The Refusal of Tyranny
447(2)
Liberation Christology
449(2)
Christ and the Crowd
451(1)
Soulful Christianity
452(2)
Liberation and Healing
454(2)
Jesus, Master of Initiation
456(2)
Christ the Ancestor
458(1)
Black Jesus
459(1)
Christ for the Enslaved
460(1)
Captivity
461(2)
Ethics
462(1)
Life with Christ
463(2)
Virtue and Obedience
465(2)
Christ the Norm
467(1)
Christ's Community
468(3)
D. Retelling the Story
In Literature
471(1)
Journey of the Magi
471(1)
The Gospel according to the Son
472(2)
The Man who Died
474(2)
The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe
476(2)
In Theology
478(1)
Emmaus and Us
478(3)
Jesus in Gethsemane
481(5)
E. God Incarnate
Debating Incarnation
486(1)
Incarnation Unnecessary
486(2)
Anti-Logos
488(2)
Yes to the Mystery
490(2)
Grace and Incarnation
492(1)
Alpha and Omega
493(1)
Christ beneath All
494(1)
Meekness and Majesty
495(1)
A Male Christ?
496(1)
Beyond Christolatry
496(1)
Christ beyond Jesus
497(2)
An Inclusive Christ
499(3)
Incarnation, Cross, Resurrection, Trinity
501(1)
The Crucified God-Man
502(1)
God on the Cross
503(2)
The Christlikeness of God
505(1)
Saved by the Cross
506(2)
The Triumphant Death
508(2)
F. Jesus beyond Christianity
The Uniqueness of Christ
510(1)
No Un-Christlikeness at All
510(1)
Jesus and Buddha
511(2)
Christ and Ramakrishna
513(1)
Hinduism and Christ
514(2)
Jesus and Judaism
515(1)
A Jewish Teacher
516(1)
Who Killed Christ?
517(2)
Jesus the Jew
519(1)
Judaism and Incarnation
520(3)
G. The Face of Christ
Christ's Beauty
523(1)
The Overwhelming Face
524(2)
Notes 526(5)
References 531(17)
Further Reading 548(3)
Acknowledgements 551(4)
Index 555

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