Table of Contents

Preface vii

Introduction: Reading the Readings ix

1 The Shape of the Debate 1

1.1 The Biblical Christ 1

1.2 The Creation of the Classic Creed 17

1.3 Early Debates over Christ's Humanity 19

1.4 The Two-Natures Doctrine: Chalcedon, Its Interpretation, Defenses, and Opponents 22

2 Jesus of History or Christ of Faith? 31

2.1 The Problem Posed 31

2.2 The Quest for the Historical Jesus 37

2.3 The Watershed of the Resurrection 41

3 The Human God? 51

3.1 Classical Two-Natures Christology: The Divine Working through the Human 51

3.2 Incarnation as Kenosis: The Self-Emptying of Divinity 54

3.3 The Significance of Incarnation 65

3.4 Revelation, Evidence, and Meaning 70

4 A Christ for All? 81

4.1 Christologies of Liberation 81

4.2 Feminist Christologies 89

4.3 Black and Asian Christologies 96

4.4 A Universal Christology? 103

Acknowledgments 109

Glossary of Christological Terms 113

For Further Reading 117

Index of Subjects 125

Index of Names 129