The Christ's faith
Michael Allen's, The Christ’s faith: a dogmatic account, forms part of the Christian doctrine series of monographs by T&T Clark Studies in Systematic Theology. It focuses particularly on constructive engagement with major topics through historical analysis or contemporary restatement. This...
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| Format: | Electronic Review |
| Language: | English |
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2011
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Neotestamentica
Year: 2011, Volume: 45, Issue: 2, Pages: 358-360 |
| Review of: | The Christ's faith (London [u.a.] : T & T Clark, 2009) (Van der Merwe, Dirk)
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| Summary: | Michael Allen's, The Christ’s faith: a dogmatic account, forms part of the Christian doctrine series of monographs by T&T Clark Studies in Systematic Theology. It focuses particularly on constructive engagement with major topics through historical analysis or contemporary restatement. This monograph,The Christ's faith, and Are you the one who is to come? by Michael Bird (2009), are two important contributions at a time when there is a pronounced quest for the historical Jesus. In this monograph Allen argues for a subjective reading of pistis Christou. The result depicts the fullness of the humanity of Jesus. This is "an exercise in critical traditioning and a dogmatic argument meant to provide ontological and covenantal support for a contemporary exegetical possibility" (2). Allen's focus is on incorporating this theological exercise into both orthodox Christology and Reformed theology (4). To this end, he critiques Thomas Aquinas' understanding of Jesus' beatific knowledge (one that almost provocatively denies that an incarnate Jesus could have faith in God). Yet the man Jesus believed in God the Father. Allen, alongside Karl Barth, develops his constructive proposal within the extensive contours of reformed theology. His dialogues with Thomas Aquinas and others form the platform for his arguments for a "covenantal anthropology" guided by Christ's faith. He also involves Morna Hooker to highlight the general concerns that a subjective reading raises (2, 4). |
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| ISSN: | 2518-4628 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Neotestamentica
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.10520/EJC83428 |