Introduction |
7 |
Chapter 1: THE JESUS EVENT |
9 |
1. The gospel sources |
11 |
2. Historical reseach and believing interpretion |
16 |
Chapter 2: THE WORLD OF JESUS |
21 |
1. Culture, politics and religion |
21 |
2. Society and economy |
24 |
3. The Jewish religious inheritance |
25 |
Chapter 3: THE INTENTION OF JESUS |
29 |
1. His Words |
29 |
2. His deeds |
34 |
3. His relationships |
36 |
Chapter 4: THE DESTINY OF JESUS |
45 |
1. Even to the death of the cross |
46 |
2. Risen from the dead |
52 |
Chapter 5: FROM THE NEW TESTAMENT TO THE HELLENISTIC CONTEXT |
57 |
1. The Pauline contribution |
59 |
2. From the post-existence of Jesus to the pre-existence of the Logos |
62 |
3. Jewish Christianity, the Apologists and the first deviations |
63 |
4. Hippolytus, Tertullian and the Alexandrines, Clement and Origen |
67 |
5. Hellensisation of Christanity or Christianisation of Hellenism? |
71 |
Chapter 6: THE GREATES DEBATES AND THE EASTERN COUNCILS |
75 |
1.The thought of Arius and the dogma of Nicea |
76 |
2. The question of the soul of Christ ( Apollianaris) and the Eastern and Latin perspectives |
80 |
3. Nestorius, the Council of Ephesus and the formula of union |
85 |
4. Monophysistism, Leo I and the definiton of Chalcedon |
88 |
5. The hypostatic union and the two wills in Christ in the Councils of Constantinople II and III |
95 |
Chapter 7: THE LATIN MIDDLE AGES |
103 |
1. From the divinsisation to the redemption of man |
103 |
2. Anselm of Canterbury's doctrine of satisfaction |
106 |
3. Bonaventure of Bagnoregio |
109 |
4. Thamas Aquinas |
111 |
5. The debate on the reason for the incaration |
115 |
Chapter 8: THE MODERN AGE |
121 |
1. Between Reanaissanve, Reformation and Enlightment |
121 |
2. Nicholas of Cusa |
123 |
3. Martin Luther |
125 |
4. The Council of Trent and the Counter Reformation |
130 |
5. The Christ of the Enlightenment Philosophers and the Idealists |
132 |
Chapter 9: THE CONTEMPORARY PERIOD |
141 |
1. European Christologies |
142 |
2. Latin American Christologies |
147 |
3. African Christologies |
153 |
4. Asian Christologies |
156 |
5. Feminist Christologies |
160 |
6. Contextual inculturation |
163 |
Chapter 10: THE SINGULAR UNIVERSALITY OF JESUS THE SAVIOUR |
165 |
1. Jesus as Saviour and the religions |
165 |
2. The theological positions |
166 |
3. The Church's magisterium |
169 |
4. The religious experience of Jesus as interpretative criterion |
174 |
Essential Bibliography |
179 |
Index of names |
182 |