Notes
Introduction
1 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>
2 Pope Francis, Evangelii Gaudium, 1.
1 Jesus of Nazareth: the turning point
1 C. S. Lewis, The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe. London: HarperCollins, 2002, 65.
2 For the background, see Martin Hengel, The Atonement: The Origins of the Doctrine in the New Testament. London: SCM Press, 1981.
3 J. R. R. Tolkien, The Monsters and the Critics and Other Essays. London: HarperCollins, 1997, 153.
4 G. K. Chesterton, Orthodoxy. London: Bodley Head, 1909, 258.
2 Jesus of Nazareth: assembling the big picture
1 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
1 Abraham Pais, J. Robert Oppenheimer: A Life. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2006, 90.
2 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’.
3 Dorothy L. Sayers, Creed or Chaos? London: Methuen, 1947, 24.
4 For a good introduction to these early debates, see Alister E. McGrath, Christian Theology: An Introduction. 5th edn. Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell, 2011, 265 – 94.
5 For an introduction to the idea of heresy, see Alister E. McGrath, Heresy: A History of Defending the Truth. London: SPCK, 2010.
6 For an excellent study, see Rowan Williams, Arius: Heresy and Tradition. Grand Rapids, MI: Eerdmans, 2002.
7 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.
8 2 Clement 1.1. This letter probably dates from the early second century, although there is some uncertainty about its date.
9 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.
10 John Calvin, Institutes of the Christian Religion, II.13.4.
11 Jürgen Moltmann, Jesus Christ for Today’s World. Minneapolis, MN: Fortress Press, 71.
12 Athanasius, On the Incarnation of the Word of God, 8.
13 Letter to Arthur Greeves, 18 October, 1931; The Collected Letters of C. S. Lewis. 3 vols. San Francisco: HarperOne, 2004 – 6, vol. 1, 976.
14 C. S. Lewis, ‘The Grand Miracle’, in C. S. Lewis: Essay Collection. London: Collins, 2000, 3 – 9.
4 Atonement: putting things right
1 For a full discussion, see Alister E. McGrath, Christian Theology: An Introduction. 5th edn. Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell, 2011, 315 – 47.
2 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.’
3 Catechism of the Catholic Church, §608.
4 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
1 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.
2 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.
3 See Alister McGrath, Deep Magic, Dragons and Talking Mice: How Reading C. S. Lewis Can Change Your Life. London: Hodder & Stoughton, 2014, 35 – 66.
4 Gilbert Meilaender, The Taste for the Other: The Social and Ethical Thought of C. S. Lewis. Grand Rapids, MI: Eerdmans, 1978, 212–13.