| 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 |