Introductory note to the First Apology of Justin Martyr, in A. Roberts and J. Donaldson (eds.), The Ante-Nicene Fathers (1885; Eerdmans, n.d.), vol. I, p. 160.
Martyr, First Apology, para. 137.
Ibid., para. 44.
Martyr, Second Apology, paras. 8, 13.
Ibid., para. 13,
Martyr, First Apology, para. 46.
B. B. Warfield, The Person and Work of Christ (Presbyterian and Reformed, 1950), p. 215.
W. Carus, Memoirs of the Life of the Rev. Charles Simeon (CUP, 1847), p. 600.
J. Pelikan, Jesus through the Centuries (Yale University Press, 1985), p. 112.
Dostoyevsky, The Brothers Karamazov (1880), Book 6, chapter 3.
J. Denney, The Atonement and the Modern Mind (Hodder & Stoughton, 1903), p. 184.
Anselm, Cur Deus Homo (1474; Williams & Norgate, 1863), i.xi.
‘The good God will forgive me; that’s his job, his speciality’. Quoted by S. C. Neill in Christian Faith Today (Penguin, 1955), p. 145.
Anselm, Cur Deus Homo, i.xxi.
Ibid., ii.xix.
Ibid., i.xxx.
Ibid., ii.vi.
Ibid., ii.vii.
Ibid., ii.xi.
Quoted by M. H. Pope in The Song of Songs, in the Anchor Bible Commentary (Doubleday, 1977), p. 19.
St Bernard’s Sermons on the Canticle of Canticles (Browne & Nelson, 1920), translated from the original Latin, in two volumes.
Ibid., vol. I, p. xiv.
Ibid., vol. I, p. 9.
Ibid., vol. I, pp. 1–67.
‘Bernard of Clairvaux’ in J. Julian (ed.), A Dictionary of Hymnology (John Murray, rev. ed. 1907).
Thomas à Kempis, The Imitation of Christ, trans. George F. Maine (1441; Collins, 1957), p. vii.
Ibid., vol. III, p. 21.
Ibid.
Ibid.
Ibid., vol. II, p. 7.
Ibid., vol. II, p. 8.
Ibid., vol. III, p. 5.
Ibid., vol. I, p. 15.
J. Stalker, Imago Christi: the example of Jesus Christ (Hodder & Stoughton, 1894), p. 27.
Ibid., p. 24.
Thomas à Kempis, The Imitation of Christ, vol. I, p. 8
Ibid., vol. I, p. 10.
Ibid., vol. III, p. 12.
Ibid., vol. I, p. 20.
Quoted in R. H. Bainton, Here I Stand (Hodder & Stoughton, 1951), p. 45.
Quoted in J. Atkinson, The Great Light: Luther and Reformation (Paternoster, 1968), p. 16.
This was Luther’s so-called ‘tower experience’, because it took place in the tower of Wittenberg’s Black Cloister. His account of it appeared first in his introduction to the Latin edition of his Works (1545).
Martin Luther, Commentary on the Epistle to the Galatians (1535; James Clarke, 1953), p. 10.
Ibid., p. 143.
Ibid., p. 26.
A. Schweitzer, The Quest of The Historical Jesus: a critical study of its progress from Reimarus to Wrede (1906; ET Adam & Charles Black, 1910), pp. 4–5.
Ibid., p. 68.
Ernest Renan, The Life of Jesus (1863; Watts/Rationalist Press Association, 1904), p. 12.
Ibid., p. 148.
Ibid., p. 144.
Ibid., p. 119.
Ibid., p. 121.
Ibid., p. 141.
Ibid., p. 142.
Ibid., p. 151.
Ibid., p. 148.
Ibid., p. 151.
Ibid.
Dickenson W. Adams (ed.), The Papers of Thomas Jefferson, second series, Jefferson’s Extracts from the gospels (Princeton University Press, 1983), p. 403.
Ibid., p. 388.
John A. Mackay, The Other Spanish Christ (SCM, 1932), p. 96.
Ibid., p. 97.
Ibid.
Ibid.
Ibid.
Ibid., p. 102.
Ibid., p. 110.
Henri Nouwen, Graçias: a Latin American Journal (Orbis, 1983), p. 105.
Ibid., p. 106.
W. T. A. Barber, Raymond Lull: the Illuminated Doctor: A study in medieval missions (1903; Charles H. Kelly, n.d.). See also R. Lull, The Book of the Lover and the Beloved: Proverbs xii (Sheldon Press, 1978).
Mackay, The Other Spanish Christ, p. 126.
Ibid., p. 147.
D. Martin, Tongues of Fire: the explosion of Protestantism in Latin America (Blackwell, 1990), p. 231.
Ibid., p. 155.
O. Costas, The Church and its Mission: A Shattering Critique from the Third World (Coverdale, 1974), p. 223.
J. M. Bonino, Revolutionary Theology Comes of Age (SPCK, 1975). Its American title is Doing Theology in a Revolutionary Situation (Fortress, 1975).
Ibid., p. xxiii.
Ibid., p. 145.
From the eleventh of his Theses on Feuerbach, to be found in Marx and Engels, On Religion (Schocker, 1964), p. 72.
G. Gutierrez, A Theology of Liberation: History, politics and salvation (SCM, 1974), p. 21.
For a survey of these, see C. Rowland (ed.), The Cambridge Companion to Liberation Theology (Cambridge University Press, 1999).
Gutierrez, A Theology of Liberation, p. 15.
Ibid., p. 13.
J. A. Kirk, Liberation Theology: an evangelical view from the Third World (Marshall Morgan and Scott, 1979), p. 95.
Papers by Bishop K. H. Ting, Love Never Ends (Yilin Press, 2000), pp. 198–199.
Bonino, Revolutionary Theology Comes of Age, p. xv.
J. Stott (ed.), Making Christ Known: Historic mission documents from the Lausanne movement, 1974–1989 (Paternoster, 1996), pp. 24–27.
H. J. Cadbury, The Peril of Modernizing Jesus (Macmillan, 1937), p. 1.
Ibid., p. 48.
Ibid., p. 42.
Ibid.
The Revd Dr N. T. Wright, Canon of Westminster. It was Tom Wright who suggested in the early 1980s that a ‘Third Quest’ for the historical Jesus had begun. These scholars all went to work as historians and were determined to set Jesus in his Jewish context. Among them were Anthony Harvey, Jesus and the Constraints of History (Duckworth, 1982), Marcus J. Borg, Conflict, Holiness and Politics in the Teachings of Jesus (Edwin Mellen Press, 1984), E. P. Sanders, Jesus and Judaism (SCM, 1985), Gerd Theissen, The Shadow of the Galilean (SCM, 1986), and James H. Charlesworth, Jesus within Judaism (SCM, 1988).
N. T. Wright, Jesus and the Victory of God (SPCK, 1996), p. 609.
N. T. Wright, The Challenge of Jesus (SPCK, 2000), p. 90. Cf. also ibid., p. 653.
Wright, The Challenge of Jesus, p. 91.
The Shekinah was the visible manifestation in the temple of God’s immanent presence.
Wright, The Challenge of Jesus, p. 84.
Ibid., p. 92; Wright, Jesus and the Victory of God, p. 653.
Wright, Jesus and the Victory of God, p. 361.
Ibid., p. 151.
J. R. Mott, The Decisive Hour of Christian Missions (Student Volunteer Movement, 1910), p. v.
Ibid., p. 94.
Ibid., p. 69.
Ibid., p. 39.
Ibid., p. 69.
Ibid., pp. 100–101.
Ibid., p. 106.
Visser’t Hooft, No Other Name (SCM, 1963), p. 95.
The International Bulletin of Missionary Research (April, 1988). Published by the Overseas Ministries Study Centre, New Haven, Connecticut, USA.
Stott (ed.), Making Christ Known, p. 16.
C. S. Lewis, An Experiment in Criticism (CUP, 1961), p. 19.
Quoted from ‘A Credible Response to Secular Europe’ in The Evangelical Review of Theology, June 1994.
