The Pope and Jesus of Nazareth

by Pabst, Adrian

• ISBN13: 9780334043218
• ISBN10: 0334043212
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2009-09-01
• Publisher: Scm Pr

Summary

The Veritas Series brings to market original volumes engaging in critical questions of pressing concern to theologians as well as philosophers, biologists, economists, and representatives of other disciplines. The Pope and Jesus of Nazareth provides essays by some of the leading scholars in Britain, continental Europe and the USA to highlight the insights and limits of the Pope's reflection on Jesus. Specifically, engages with the book from critical, cross-disciplinary and different faith perspectives. The objective is to generate a wider debate on the issues raised and to make a substantial contribution to contemporary thinking on Jesus.

Author Biography

Angus Paddison is a Lecturer in Theology at the University of Winchester. Adrian Pabst is Lecturer in Politics at the University of Kent in Canterbury and a research fellow at the Luxembourg Institute for European and International Studies.

Table of Contents

Centre of Theology and Philosophy	p. ix
Veritas Series Introduction	p. xiii
Contributors	p. xv
Acknowledgements	p. xix
Abbreviations	p. xx
Foreword	p. xxiii
Introduction	p. 1
History and Christology
Once There Was No Historical Jesus	p. 13
Christ of History, Jesus of Faith	p. 21
If Jesus Knew He Was God, How Did it Work?	p. 50
Christ, Descent and Participation	p. 68
Searching for the Face of the Lord in Ratzinger's Jesus of Nazareth	p. 83
Scripture, Theology and the Church
The Use of the Old Testament in Pope Benedict XVI's Jesus of Nazareth	p. 97
Ratzinger's Johannine Jesus: A Challenge to Enlightenment Historiography	p. 109
Saints' Lives as Exegesis	p. 119
The Prologue of John and the Heart of Matthew (John 1.1-18 and Matthew 12.46-13.58): Does the Jesus of the Synoptic Gospels really say nothing different from the Prologue of John?	p. 134
The Transfiguration: A Case Study in the Relationship between 'History' and 'Theological symbol' in the Light of Pope Benedict's Book	p. 159
Following Jesus with Pope Benedict	p. 176
Jesus of Nazareth in other Perspectives
Can the 'Real' Jesus be Identified with the Historical Jesus? A Review of the Pope's Challenge to Biblical Scholarship and the Ongoing Debate	p. 199
The Gospel according to Benedict: Jesus of Nazareth on Jews and Judaism	p. 233
'Searching for the Face of the Lord' - Hope or Heresy?	p. 247
Who's Listening?	p. 262
Index of Scriptural References	p. 279
Index of Names and Subjects	p. 283
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