Notes
Introduction
Pope Francis, Evangelii Gaudium (‘The Joy of the Gospel’), 36. For the full text, see <http://www.vatican.va/holy_father/francesco/apost_exhortations/documents/papa-francesco_esortazione-ap_20131124_evangelii-gaudium_en.html>
Pope Francis, Evangelii Gaudium, 1.
1 Jesus of Nazareth: the turning point
C. S. Lewis, The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe. London: HarperCollins, 2002, 65.
For the background, see Martin Hengel, The Atonement: The Origins of the Doctrine in the New Testament. London: SCM Press, 1981.
J. R. R. Tolkien, The Monsters and the Critics and Other Essays. London: HarperCollins, 1997, 153.
G. K. Chesterton, Orthodoxy. London: Bodley Head, 1909, 258.
2 Jesus of Nazareth: assembling the big picture
Pope Francis, Evangelii Gaudium (‘The Joy of the Gospel’), 12. For the full text, see <http://www.vatican.va/holy_father/francesco/apost_exhortations/documents/papa-francesco_esortazione-ap_20131124_evangelii-gaudium_en.html>
3 Incarnation: the Word became flesh
Abraham Pais, J. Robert Oppenheimer: A Life. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2006, 90.
Epiphany, traditionally observed on 6 January, marks the visit of the Magi or ‘wise men’ to visit Jesus (Matthew 2.1–12). The unusual word ‘epiphany’ is derived from a Greek word which means ‘to show forth’ or ‘to manifest’.
Dorothy L. Sayers, Creed or Chaos? London: Methuen, 1947, 24.
For a good introduction to these early debates, see Alister E. McGrath, Christian Theology: An Introduction. 5th edn. Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell, 2011, 265–94.
For an introduction to the idea of heresy, see Alister E. McGrath, Heresy: A History of Defending the Truth. London: SPCK, 2010.
For an excellent study, see Rowan Williams, Arius: Heresy and Tradition. Grand Rapids, MI: Eerdmans, 2002.
Larry W. Hurtado, Lord Jesus Christ: Devotion to Jesus in Earliest Christianity. Grand Rapids, MI: Eerdmans, 2003; Richard Bauckham, Jesus and the God of Israel. Grand Rapids, MI: Eerdmans, 2008.
2 Clement 1.1. This letter probably dates from the early second century, although there is some uncertainty about its date.
As recalled by one of his students, Thomas F. Torrance (1913–2007): see Thomas F. Torrance, ‘Hugh Ross MacKintosh: Theologian of the Cross’. Scottish Bulletin of Evangelical Theology 5 (1987), 160–73; quote at 163.
John Calvin, Institutes of the Christian Religion, II.13.4.
Jürgen Moltmann, Jesus Christ for Today’s World. Minneapolis, MN: Fortress Press, 71.
Athanasius, On the Incarnation of the Word of God, 8.
Letter to Arthur Greeves, 18 October, 1931; The Collected Letters of C. S. Lewis. 3 vols. San Francisco: HarperOne, 2004–6, vol. 1, 976.
C. S. Lewis, ‘The Grand Miracle’, in C. S. Lewis: Essay Collection. London: Collins, 2000, 3–9.
4 Atonement: putting things right
For a full discussion, see Alister E. McGrath, Christian Theology: An Introduction. 5th edn. Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell, 2011, 315–47.
A similar line of thought lies behind the poet John Donne’s lines: ‘We think that Paradise and Calvary, Christ’s cross and Adam’s tree, stood in one place.’
Catechism of the Catholic Church, §608.
C. S. Lewis, ‘On Forgiveness’, in C. S. Lewis: Essay Collection. London: Collins, 2000, 184–6.
5 Jesus of Nazareth and the life of faith
The Works of Richard Hooker. 8 vols. London: Clarke, 1821, vol. 3, 369. The image, which is based on Romans 13.14 (‘put on Christ’ or ‘clothe yourselves with Christ’), is also found in earlier writers.
See Anne E. Matter, ‘Mystical Marriage’, in Women and Faith: Catholic Religious Life in Italy from Late Antiquity to the Present, ed. Lucetta Scaraffia and Gabriella Zarri. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1999, 30–41.
See Alister McGrath, Deep Magic, Dragons and Talking Mice: How Reading C. S. Lewis Can Change Your Life. London: Hodder & Stoughton, 2014, 35–66.
Gilbert Meilaender, The Taste for the Other: The Social and Ethical Thought of C. S. Lewis. Grand Rapids, MI: Eerdmans, 1978, 212–13.