| TABLE OF CONTENTS |
|
| Foreword |
v |
| Abbreviations |
xi |
| PART I: THE MEANING OF CHRISTOLOGY AND DIFFERENT APPROACHES |
1 |
| Chapter 1. What Is Meant by " Christology"? |
3-May |
| Chapter 2. Various Approaches to New Testament Christology |
Jun-15 |
| (A) Nonscholarly Conservatsm |
7 |
| (B) Nonscholarly Liberalism |
10 |
| (C) Scholarly Liberalism |
11 |
| (D) Bultmannian Existentialism |
1 |
| (E) Scholarly (Moderate) Conservatism |
14 |
| PART II: THE CHRISTOLOGY OF JESUS |
17 |
| Chapter 3. Cautions about Expectations and Presuppositions |
23-30 |
| (A) Attitudes That Deny or Underplay the Divine in Jesus |
25 |
| (B) Attitude That Limit the Humanity of Jesus |
26 |
| Chapter 4. What Can Be Discerned about Jesus from His Words Concerning Issues Other than the Kinhdom and Himself |
31-59 |
| (A) What Can be discerned from the Knowledge that Jesus shows of the Ordinary affairs of lìfe |
31 |
| (B) What can be discerned from the Gênneral knowledge that Jesus shows of Religious Matters |
36 |
| Chapter5. What Can Be Discornes About Jesus From His Words Proclaiming the Kinhdom of God |
60-70 |
| (A) What Jesus Deeds Proclaiming the Kinhdom Tell Us about His Christology |
61 |
| (B) What Jesus Words Proclaiming the Kinhdom Tell Us about His Chrislogy |
67 |
| Chapter 6. What can be discorned about Jesus from His Words Concerning Himself |
71-102 |
| (A) Did Jesus Affirm That He Was the Mesiah? |
73 |
| (B) Did Jesus Affirm That He Was the Son of God? |
80 |
| (C) Did Jesus Affirm That He Was the Son of Man? |
89 |
| PART III: THE CHRISTOLOGIES OF NEW TESTAMENT CHRISTIANS |
103 |
| Preface to the Discussion |
105-09 |
| Chapter 7. Christologies Expressed in Terms of Jesus Second Coming or Resurrection |
110-15 |
| (A) Second-coming (Parousia) Christology |
110 |
| (B) Resurrection Christology |
112 |
| Chapter 8. Christologies Expressed in Terms of Jesus Public Ministry |
116-25 |
| Chapter 9. Christologies Expressed in PreMinistry Terms |
126-41 |
| (A) Family-circle or Boyhood Christology |
126 |
| (B) Conception Christology |
129 |
| (C) Preexistence Christology |
133 |
| Chapter 10. General Observations on These Christologies |
142-52 |
| APPENDIXES |
153 |
| APPENDIX I. A Brief History of the Development of Royal Messianic Hope in Israel |
155-61 |
| (A) First Stage: Before the 8th Century BC |
156 |
| (B) Second Stage: From the 8th Century BC to the Babilonian Exile |
157 |
| (C) Third Stage: From the Exile to NT Times |
159 |
| APPENDIX II. The Reality of the Resurrection ò Jesus |
162-70 |
| (A) General Objections to the Reality of the Resurrection |
163 |
| (B) Difficulties Arising from the Bibical Narratives of the Resurrection |
166 |
| APPENDIX III. Did New Testament Christians Call Jesus God? |
171-95 |
| (A) Passages That Seem To Imply the Title"God" Was Not Used for Jesus |
174 |
| (B) Passage Where the Use of the Title " God" for Jesus Is Dubious |
177 |
| (C) Passages Where Jesus Is Clearly Called God |
185 |
| (D) Evaluation of the Evidence |
189 |
| APPENDIX IV. Features in the Christology of the Gospel According to Jonh |
196-213 |
| (A) Some Approaches to Johannene Christology in Contemporary Writing |
197 |
| (B) Possible Factors in the Development of Johannine Christology |
205 |
| AN EVALUATIVE LIST OF SELECT BOOKS ON NEW TESTAMENT CHRISTOLOGY |
214-17 |
| INDEXES |
219 |
| NIBLIOGRAPHICAL INDEX OF AUTHORS |
221-22 |
| TOPICAL INDEX |
223-26 |