Includes bibliographical references (pages 153-184) and index.
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Jesus as revealer : Karl Rahner, Dorothee Soelle, Roger Haight -- Jesus as moral exemplar : Rosemary Radford Ruether, Carter Heyward, Mark Lewis Taylor -- Jesus as source of ultimate hope : James Cone, Jon Sobrino, Elizabeth Johnson -- Jesus as the suffering Christ : Jèurgen Moltmann, Douglas John Hall, Marilyn McCord Adams -- Jesus as source of "bounded openness" : Raimon Panikkar, John B. Cobb, Jr., Jacques Dupuis -- Conclusion: Fifteen christologies later.
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While many know of the signal contributions of such twentieth-century giants as Paul Tillich or Karl Barth or Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, the important work since their time often goes unremarked until some major controversy erupts. Here is a smart and helpful survey of the chief approaches and thinkers in today's understanding of the person, significance, and work of Jesus Christ.Schweitzer offers an insightful introduction to the contemporary context of Christology, in which basic questions in the discipline (and soteriology) are being rethought in light of globalization, postmodernity, and.