| Preface |
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| PART ONE - THE NEW TESTAMENT |
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| Introduction to Part One |
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| - Jewish Hellenistic and Gentile Hellenistic Christological Approaches |
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| - Influence of Oriental Cults and Myths |
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| Chapter One: TEXTS REFLECTING EARLY PALESTINIAN CHRISTOLOGY |
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| a) Jesus as Servant and Prophet like Moses in the Kerygma |
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| b) Jesus as the Son of Man |
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| c) Texts Connected with Other Early Palestinian Titles |
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| Chapter Two: CHRISTOLOGICAL TEXTS FROM "Q" |
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| - Introducing "Q" |
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| - Baptize with Fire (Lk 3:16; Mt 3:11) |
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| - "If you are the Son of God" (Lk 4:3, 9; Mt 4:3.6) |
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| - Calling Jesus "Lord, Lord" (Lk 6:46; Mt 7:21f) |
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| - John and Jesus (Lk 7:18-35; Mt 11:2-19) |
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| - Following the Son of Man (Lk 9:58: Mt 8:20) |
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| - Christology of Superiority: Jonah and Solomon (Lk 11:29-32; Mt 12:39-41) |
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| - The Future Son of Man (Lk 12:8; Mt 10:32) |
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| - Christological Traits in Q |
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| Chapter Three: CHRIST IN THE MARKAN TRADITION |
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| - The Gospel of Jesus Christ, the Son of God (Mk 1:1) |
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| - The Father's Beloved Son (Mk 1:11) |
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| - "The Holy One of God" (Mk 1:24) |
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| - Jesus as Bridegroom (Mk 2:19-20) |
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| - "You Are the Son of God" (Mk 3:11) |
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| - "The Stronger One" (Mk 3:27) |
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| - "Who then is This One?" (Mk 4:41) |
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| - "Who do men say that I am?" (Mk 8:27) |
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| - "The Son of Man Must Suffer" (Mk 8:31) |
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| - The Rebuke of Peter (Mk 8:32-33) |
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| - "Listen to Him" (Mk 9:7) |
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| - The Ransom Saying (Mk 10:45) |
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| - "Son of David" (Mk 10:47) |
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| - "Nor the Son" (Mk 13:32) |
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| - Truly the Son of God (Mk 15:39) |
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| - Conclusion |
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| Chapter Four: THE PRE-EXISTENCE OF CHRIST AND HIS SELF-UNDERSTANDING |
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| a) Christ Pre-existent |
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| - "First-Born of All Creation" |
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| - Pre-existent Son of God |
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| - The Son Who Was Sent |
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| - The Elthon-Sayings |
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| - A Pre-existent Jesus? |
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| b) Jesus' Self-Understanding |
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| - Four Sayings in Mark |
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| - Son of the Father |
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| - The Hymn of Jubilation and Other Texts |
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| - Conclusion |
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| Chapter Five: CHRISTOLOGY IN THE LUCAN WRITINGS |
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| - He Will Be Called "Son of God" (Lk 1:35) |
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| - "A Savior, Who Is Christ Lord" (Lk 2:11) |
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| - "I Must Be in my Father's House" (Lk 2:49) |
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| - "No Prophet is Acceptable in His Own Country" (Lk 4:24) |
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| - Again Jesus as Prophet (Lk 9:51; 11:29-32) |
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| - Departure from Galilee (Lk 13:33) |
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| - "The Lord Has Need of it" (Lk 19:31) |
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| - "Blessed Is the King" (Lk 19:38) |
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| - Three Titles in Lk 22:67-70 |
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| - "Made Lord and Christ" (Ac 2:36) |
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| - "The Church of God" (Ac 20:28) |
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| - Conclusion |
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| Chapter Six: DISTINCTIVE CHRISTOLOGICAL TRAITS IN MATTHEW |
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| - The Son of David, the Son of Abraham (1:1) |
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| - "Who is Called Christ" (1:16) |
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| - "Out of Egypt I have called my Son" (2:15) |
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| - "Truly You Are the Son of God" (14:33) |
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| - The Son of Man with His Angels (16:27) |
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| - Judging, as a Shepherd (25:32) |
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| - Conclusion |
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| Chapter Seven: THE EARLY CHRISTOLOGICAL HYMNS |
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| - From Kenosis to Lordship (Ph 2:6-11) |
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| - Preacher to the Spirits (1 P 3:18-22) |
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| - Taken up in Glory (1 Tm 3:16) |
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| - Head of the Cosmos (Col 1:15-20) |
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| - The Logos Incarnate (Jn 1:1-18) |
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| - Conclusion |
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| Chapter Eight: THE CHRISTOLOGY OF PAUL |
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| a) Texts from the Archaic Level (51 A.D.) |
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| - "Wait for His Son from Heaven" (1 Th 1:10) |
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| - "At the Coming of our Lord Jesus" (1 Th 3:13) |
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| - A Messianic Kingdom (1 Cor 15:24)? |
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| b) Early Level Pauline Texts (57/58 A.D.) |
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| - "Established Son of God" (Rm 1:4) |
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| - Christ Called "God" (Rm 9:5) |
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| - One God-One Lord (1 Cor 8:6) |
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| - The Last Adam (1 Cor 15:45) |
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| - The Lord is the Spirit" (2 Cor 3:17) |
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| c) Texts of a Later Level (61-63 A.D.) |
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| - In Him the Fullness of Deity Dwells Bodily (Col 2:9) |
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| - "Recapitulate all things in Christ" (Ep 1:10) |
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| - Conclusion |
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| Chapter Nine: HEBREWS. FIRST PETER, AND THE PASTORAL EPISTLES |
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| - God Has Spoken to Us by a Son (Heb 1:2) |
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| - "Pioneer of their Salvation" (Heb 2:10) |
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| - "So also the Christ... (Heb 5:5). |
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| - "Proclaimed High Priest (Heb 5:9) |
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| - The Chief Shepherd (1 P 5:4) |
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| - "Our Savior Jesus Christ" (2 Tm 1:10) |
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| - "Our Great God and Savior Christ Jesus (Tt 2:13) |
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| - Conclusion |
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| Chapter Ten: THE FOURTH GOSPEL AND THE JOHANNINE LETTERS |
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| - "Behold, the Lamb of God" (Jn 1:29) |
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| - "Savior of the World" (Jn 4:42) |
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| - The Son as Judge (Jn 5:27) |
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| - "The Holy One of God" (Jn 6:69) |
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| - Anthropos (Jn 8:40) |
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| - Ego Eimi Sayings |
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| - Fellowship with God and Christ ( 1 Jn 1:3) |
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| - A Paraclete, Jesus Christ (1 Jn 2:1) |
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| - An Hilasmos for our Sins (1 Jn 2:2) |
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| - "The Son of the Father" (2 Jn 3) |
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| - Conclusion |
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| Chapter Eleven: THE CHRIST OF THE APOCALYPSE |
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| - Like a Son of Man (1:13) |
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| - The Key of David (3:7) |
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| - The Amen (3:14) |
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| - The Redeeming and Conquering Lamb (17:14) |
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| - The Christ of Revelation |
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| PART TWO-THE LATER DEVELOPMENTS |
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| Chapter Twelve: SOME EARLY CHRISTIAN WRITINGS |
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| - Jewish Christian Christology |
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| - The Epistle of Clement of Rome |
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| - Ignatius of Antioch |
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| - Justin Martyr |
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| - Melito of Sardis |
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| - Irenaeus of Lyons |
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| - Tertullian and Other Early Christian Writers |
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| - Three Church Councils |
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| - Conclusion |
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| Chapter Thirteen: TOWARDS THE DEFINITION OF CHALCEDON |
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| - The Cappadocian Contribution |
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| - Contribution from the West |
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| - Reconciling Divergent Views |
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| - The Council of Chalcedon |
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| - Conclusion |
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| Chapter Fourteen: NEW ISSUES IN CHRISTOLOGY |
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| - The Limitations of Classical Christology |
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| - Bonhoeffer and Chalcedon |
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| - Abandoning Chalcedon (Schoonenberg, Hulsbosch, Schillebeeckx) |
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| - Christ the Liberator (Liberation Christology) |
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| - The Myth of God Incarnate |
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| - The Cosmic Christ (Teilhard de Chardin) |
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| - A Dogmatic Viewpoint (Karl Rahner) |
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| - Concluding Remarks |
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| BOOKNOTES |
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| BIBLIOGRAPHY |
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| SCRIPTURE INDEX |
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| SUBJECT INDEX |
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