Thinking Christ

by Moulaison, Jane Barter

• ISBN13: 9780800698737
• ISBN10: 0800698738
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2012-05-01
• Publisher: Fortress Pr

Summary

Twenty-first century theology often makes a virtue of deconstructing traditional claims about the person and work of Christ. Claims about the central significance of Jesus Christ appear to be oppressive, intolerant and even violent. Jane Moulaison's strategic work engages several contemporary Christological critiques leveled against classical Christology and argues that such critical theologies are not undermined by the claim of Christ's central significance but are rather radicalized by it. She ably re-reads the tradition that seeks to interpret Christ's saving activity in light of several contemporary theological and political concerns.

Author Biography

Jane Barter Moulaison is associate professor of theology and church history at the University of Winnipeg and is author of Lord, Giver of Life (2007) and editor of The Future of Theological Education in Canada (2009). She is also a deacon in the Anglican Church of Canada.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	p. vii
Introduction	p. 1
Transcending the Limits of Privilege	p. 2
The Importance of Incarnation	p. 3
The Gifts of Nicene Theology	p. 5
Christ as Exemplum and Sacramentum	p. 8
The Virtue of Humility	p. 10
Reading the Text of Scripture and the Text of the World	p. 11
What Is Theological Critique?	p. 14
The Design of This Book	p. 17
"We Believe in One Lord, Jesus Christ": Proclaiming Christ's Lordship in the Midst of Empire	p. 21
Postcolonialism and Empire Analysis	p. 22
Contemporary Responses to Empire	p. 23
Augustine's Ambiguous Relationship with Imperial Power	p. 27
Augustine's Political Theology	p. 28
Conclusion: Confessing Christ as Lord in the Midst of Empire	p. 39
"Begotten of the Father before All Worlds": Jesus Christ and Creation	p. 41
Ecotheology and Sacramental Christology	p. 42
Basil on the Diversity and Design of Nature	p. 45
The Imago Dei and Likeness to God	p. 48
Creation as Sign and Sacrament	p. 49
Conclusion: Asceticism, Incarnation, and the Flourishing of Creation	p. 56
"By Whom All Things Were Made": Use and Enjoyment of Theological Language	p. 63
Religious Longing and Linguistic Representation	p. 66
Using the Things of the World	p. 72
Critiquing and Ordering Desire	p. 75
Scripture and Signs	p. 78
Conclusion: Gender as Provisional Sign	p. 80
"Very God of Very God": Proclaiming Christ's Divinity in a Pluralist Age	p. 83
Unity and Particularity in the Meaning of Religion	p. 84
Tolerance as a Secular Value	p. 87
Athanasius and What It Means to Be Human	p. 92
Divine Immanence and Transcendence	p. 93
Conclusion: Confessing the Crucified One in Humility	p. 102
"He Was Crucified for Us under Pontius Pilate": Proclaiming the Cross in a Violent World	p. 105
Models of Atonement	p. 106
Demystifying the Cross	p. 108
Atonement as Recapitulation	p. 110
Conclusion: God's Power in Suffering	p. 119
"To Judge the Quick and the Dead": Christ and the Redemption of Memory	p. 121
Augustine and the Gift of Memory	p. 125
The Problematic Nature of Forgiveness	p. 130
The Economy of Forgiveness	p. 132
Memory and Charity	p. 135
Memory and Eucharist	p. 136
The Eternal and the Mundane	p. 138
Conclusion: Memory and the Future	p. 140
Conclusion. "Inventory the Heritage"-Christology and Critique	p. 141
Notes	p. 145
Bibliography	p. 169
Index	p. 179
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