| JESUS AN EXPERIMENT IN CHRISTOLOGY |
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| Why this boook has been written |
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| I. The story of a crippled man |
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| II. The situation in outline |
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| II. A challenge |
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| IV. A note on exegesis and theology |
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| Part one: questions of method, hermeneutics and criteria |
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| section one: Jesus of Nazereth, norm and criterrion of any interpretation of Jesus |
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| chapter 1: Historically grounded access of the believer to Jesus of Nazareth |
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| 1. The structure of the offer of salvation and christian response |
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| a. the human person, focus of manifold relationships |
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| b. revelation and lecrouable disponible |
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| c. the constant unitive factor |
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| d. the tension between Jesus and the New Testament |
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| 2. Jesus of Nazareth, acclaimed as the Christ, object of historicocritical enquiry |
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| a. Diverse images of Jesus and Jesus the object of historial enquiry |
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| b. Old and new, the critical approach |
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| c. Modern historiography and Jesus of Nazareth |
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| d. Theological significance of the historial quest for Jesus |
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| chapter 2: The need is renewed for a postcritical, narrative history |
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| section two: Criteria for a critical identification of the historical Jesus |
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| 1. Background against which the historical criteria must be viewed: matrix of the several criteria |
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| 2. Why then search for criteria relevant to the sifting process? |
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| 3. The catolaguing of valid, positive criteria |
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| a. The editing process a criterion of historicity traditons incorporated willy nilly |
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| b. The criterion of form criticism the principle of dual irreducibility |
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| c. Tradition as a historical criterion the principle of the cross section |
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| d.Consistency of content as a criterion |
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| e. Consistency of content as a criterion |
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| e. The criterion of the rejection of Jesus'massage and praxis his exucution |
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| 4. Frequently employed but invalid criteria |
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| 5. note on the Q hypothesis |
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| section three instification for the structure of this book, as according with the method, hermeneutics and criteriology discussed |
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| part two the gospel of Jesus Christ |
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| by way of introduction euaggelion or good news |
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| section one what Jesus proclaimed and how he lived |
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| chapter I Jesus'message of salvation on its way from God |
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| 1.Prophetic and apocalyptic penitential movements in israel |
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| 2.the message and activity of John the baptist |
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| 3.Jesus'first prophetic act his baptism by john |
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| 4.the basic impulse behind the message and preaching of Jesus |
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| a.god'rule ditected at mankind the kingdom of god |
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| b.the praxis of the kingdom of god. Jesus'parables |
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| c.eschatological revolution Jesus'beatitudes |
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| chapter 2:Jesus'manner of life |
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| 1. Jesus'caring and abiding presence among people experienced as salvation coming from god |
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| introduction |
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| a.the beneficent reality of god lordship made present in Jesus'mighty acts |
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| b.Jesus'dealings with people liberate them and make them glad Jesus as companion at table |
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| c.the common life and fellowship with Jesus, prior to easter, of disciples who go after him |
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| 2.man's cause as god's cause the god of Jesus |
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| a.Jesus as man's liberator from a constricting view of god Jesus and the law |
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| b.Jesus'original abba experience source and secret of his being, message and manner of life |
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| section two kingdom of god rejection and death of Jesus |
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| chapter 1 the rejection and death of Jesus |
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| introduction the problem |
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| 1.the death of jesus as interpreted in early christianity |
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| 2. the death of Jesus, viewed in the context of his earthly life |
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| 3.the historical grounds in law for Jesus'execution |
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| chapter 2 Jesus'last prophetic sign his death as being for others to interpret |
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| section three ithe christian story after Jesus'death the kingdom of god takes on the apperarance of Jesus Christ |
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| chapter 1. the disciples scandalized by the arrest the exucution of Jesus |
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| chapter 2 why do you seek the living among the dead? |
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| 1.traditions centred on the Jerusalem siting of the holy supulchre |
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| 2.the offcial apostolic traditon we believe that god raised him from the dead |
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| chapter 3 the easter experience being converted on Jesus'initiative to Jesus as the Christ salvation found conclusively in Jesus |
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| part three Christian interpretation of the crucified and risen one |
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| section one the gospels as general hermeneusis of the risen Jesus |
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| introduction |
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| chapter 1 the early christian movement centred around Jesus divergent reflexes of the one Jesus of Nazareth |
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| 1.taking stock of early chiristian credal trends |
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| 2.primitive christian creeds and their historical foundation in Jesus |
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| conclusion |
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| chapter 2 first idebtufucatuib if the person, a link between the earthly Jesus and the very early christian creeds |
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| the problem presented |
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| 1.ready to hand Jewish models of latter day salvific figures |
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| 2.the Christian first option from among the existing Jewish models or latteerday salvific figures |
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| conclusion |
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| section two direct hermeneusis of the resurrection in the new testament |
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| chapter 1 raised from the dead |
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| 1.late Jewish ideas about life after death |
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| 2.god raised him from the dead |
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| 3. the third day rose again according to the scriptures the resurrection of Jesus as an eschatological conclusive event |
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| chapter 2 resurrection exaltation the sending of the spirit the rarousia |
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| section three from a theology of Jesus to a christology |
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| chapter 1 theology to the power of two |
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| chapter 2 growing reflection within the traditions of the new testament |
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| section four reflection in the early church of the post new testemet period christological dogma |
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| conclusion of part three the problem stated |
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| part four who do we say that he is? |
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| section one the present christological crisis and its presuppositions |
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| introduction |
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| chapter 1 a conjunctural horizon of ideas and nonsynchronous rhythm in the complex tranformation of a culture |
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| chapter 2 the break with tradition since the enlightenment |
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| section two a universal intellective horizon not amenable to theorizing |
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| chapter 1 unique universality of a particular human being in history |
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| 1.the notion of human transcendence |
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| 2.unique universality the universal appeal of what is proper to man |
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| conclusion |
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| chapter 2 the history of human suffering in the search for meaning and liberation |
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| section three Jesus parable of God and paradigm of humanity |
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| chapter 1 god'saving action in history |
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| chapter 2 the christological problem |
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| chapter 3 theoretical christology story and praxis of the kingdom of god |
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| close coda to the story of the crippled man |
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| note |
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| technical information |
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