PART II: THE ECCLESIASTICAL JESUS (or how the church has presented him)
PART II: THE ECCLESIASTICAL JESUS
(or How the Church has Presented Him)
1. Christ the complete fulfilment: Justin Martyr
The prophets and the philosophers
2. Christ the unique God-man: the early councils
The importance of Christology
3. Christ the perfect monk: St Benedict
Two questions about monasticism
4. Christ the feudal debtor: Anselm
Medieval atonement theology
5. Christ the heavenly bridegroom: Bernard of Clairvaux
Christian mysticism
6. Christ the ethical exemplar: Thomas à Kempis
An ascetic imitation of Christ
7. Christ the gracious Saviour: Martin Luther
Justification by faith alone
8. Christ the human teacher: Ernst Renan and Thomas Jefferson
Enlightenment scepticism
9. Christ the tragic victim: John Mackay
Good Friday without Easter
10. Christ the social liberator: Gustavo Gutierrez
Good news for the poor
11. Christ the Jewish Messiah: N. T. Wright
Exile and exodus
12. Christ the global Lord: Mission in the twentieth century
From Edinburgh 1910 to Lausanne 1974