Ordinary Christology: Who Do You Say I Am? Answers From The Pews
Ordinary Christology is defined as the account of who Jesus was/is and what he did/does that is given by Christian believers who have received no formal theological education. In this fascinating study Ann Christie analyses, and offers a theological appraisal, of the main christologies and soteriolo...
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| Language: | English |
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Abingdon
Taylor & Francis Group
2012
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| In: | Year: 2012 |
| Reviews: | Ann Christie, Ordinary Christology: Who Do You Say that I Am? Answers from the Pews (Farnham: Ashgate, 2012), pp. 214, £55, ISBN 978-1-4094-2535-9 (2014) (Waddell, Peter)
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| Edition: | 1st ed. |
| Series/Journal: | Explorations in Practical, Pastoral and Empirical Theology
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Jesus Christ ; Person and offices ; Miscellanea
B Electronic books B Theology, Doctrinal ; Popular works B Salvation ; Christianity ; Miscellanea |
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| Summary: | Ordinary Christology is defined as the account of who Jesus was/is and what he did/does that is given by Christian believers who have received no formal theological education. In this fascinating study Ann Christie analyses, and offers a theological appraisal, of the main christologies and soteriologies operating in a sample of ordinary churchgoers. Christie highlights the formal characteristics of ordinary Christology and raises questions about how we should respond to the beliefs about Jesus held by ordinary churchgoers. Empirical findings have important pastoral, theological, and missiological implications, and raise important questions about the importance (or otherwise) of 'right' belief for being Christian. This book presents a model for how the study of ordinary theology can be conducted, with the in-depth theological analysis and critique which it both requires and deserves. Cover -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- 1 Introduction -- Testing Ordinary Christology -- Learning Ordinary Christology -- 2 Studying Ordinary Christology -- Empirical Theological Research -- Descriptive Research: A Hermeneutical-Phenomenological Approach -- Anything to Declare? -- Choosing an Empirical Research Method -- The Qualitative Research Interview -- Data Analysis -- Theological Analysis -- Some Methodological Problems -- 3 Functional Christology -- Absence of a Doctrine of Pre-existence -- Absence of a Doctrine of the Immanent Trinity -- Jesus is Not God -- Virginal-Conception Christology -- Spirit Christology -- Jesus is Divine? -- Functional Christology -- Arianism All Over Again? -- Modalist Tendencies -- Assumptions of Orthodoxy -- 4 Ontological Christology -- Jesus is God -- Tritheistic Tendencies -- Incarnational Christology -- Truly Human? -- Taking Myth Literally -- 5 Sceptical Christology -- A Problem With Miracle -- History Challenges Dogma -- Liberal Tendencies -- Radical Liberal Christology -- Jesus the Representative Human -- Human not Divine -- 6 Three Soteriologies -- Exemplarist Soteriology -- An Exemplarist Interpretation of the Cross -- The Cross as a Demonstration of the Love of God -- Traditionalist Soteriology -- A Traditionalist Interpretation of the Cross -- Forgiveness Without an Atoning Death -- Eternal Salvation Through Merit -- Evangelical Soteriology -- Substitutionary Atonement -- A Personal Relationship with Jesus -- 7 Soteriological Difficulties -- Saved From What? -- Where is the Evidence? -- Why Did Jesus Have to Die? -- A Sadistic God? -- How Does Jesus Save? -- Salvation through Jesus Alone? -- The Default Soteriology: Jesus as Exemplar -- 8 Some Formal Characteristics of Ordinary Christology -- Ordinary Christology is Story-Shaped -- Do Ordinary Believers 'Do Christology'?. |
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| ISBN: | 1409425363 |