Christology: Key Readings in Christian Thought

This book is designed to meet the needs of todays teachers and students of Christian theology. Focusing on specific doctrines and themes the book includes selected primary readings that track the development of the doctrine of Jesus Christ including the important questions and debates surrounding it. Selections consider both the person and the work of Christ. Topics include the development of classic Christology from its biblical roots through patristic debates responses to the modern distinction between the Jesus of history and the Christ of faith the understanding of incarnation as kenosis and the critical and constructive developments of liberation and feminist theologies. The book includes a bibliography and each chapter includes topics for further discussion.