Christ and Horrors: The Coherence of Christology

Christ and Horrors: The Coherence of Christology

by Marilyn McCord Adams
ISBN-10:
0521686008
ISBN-13:
9780521686006
Pub. Date:
09/21/2006
Publisher:
Cambridge University Press
ISBN-10:
0521686008
ISBN-13:
9780521686006
Pub. Date:
09/21/2006
Publisher:
Cambridge University Press
Christ and Horrors: The Coherence of Christology

Christ and Horrors: The Coherence of Christology

by Marilyn McCord Adams
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Overview

Who would the Saviour have to be, what would the Saviour have to do to rescue human beings from the meaning-destroying experiences of their lives? This book offers a systematic Christology that is at once biblical and philosophical. Starting with human radical vulnerability to horrors such as permanent pain, sadistic abuse or genocide, it develops what must be true about Christ if He is the horror-defeater who ultimately resolves all the problems affecting the human condition and Divine-human relations. Distinctive elements of Marilyn McCord Adams' study are her defence of the two-natures theory, of Christ as Inner Teacher and a functional partner in human flourishing, and her arguments in favour of literal bodily resurrection (Christ's and ours) and of a strong doctrine of corporeal Eucharistic presence. The book concludes that Christ is the One in Whom, not only Christian doctrine, but cosmos, church, and the human psyche hold together.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780521686006
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Publication date: 09/21/2006
Series: Current Issues in Theology , #4
Edition description: New Edition
Pages: 344
Product dimensions: 5.55(w) x 8.46(h) x 0.79(d)

About the Author

Marilyn McCord Adams is Regius Professor of Divinity, University of Oxford and Canon of Christ Church Cathedral, Oxford. She has published extensively in academic philosophy and theology.

Table of Contents

Preface; 1. Christology as natural theology; 2. Posing the problems; 3. Sharing the horrors; 4. Psychologizing the person; 5. Recovering the metaphysics; 6. Learning the meanings; 7. Cosmic coherence: the primacy of Christ; 8. Resurrection and renewal; 9. Horrors and holocausts, sacrifices and priests; 10. Christ in the sacrament of the altar.
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