"Who do people say the Son of Man is? . . . But you . . ' who do you say I am?'(Matt. 16-14, 15). Jesus of Nazareth's famous pair of questions, handed down to us in the Gospels, is still open. The answers his first followers gave were only the beginning. Later disciples, scholars, the curious, enemies-all have given their answers. And the variety of these answers, the passion with which they ha…
"He comes as yet unknown into a hamlet of Lower Galilee. He is watched by the cold, hard eyes of peasants living long enough at a subsistence level to know exactly where the line is drawn between poverty and destitution. He looks like a beggar yet his eyes lack the proper cringe, his voice the proper whine, his walk the proper shuffle. He speaks about the rule of God and they listen as much fro…
Already hailed as a landmark in contemporary Catholic theology, Jesus Symbol of God surveys scriptural data, the key moments in the development of doctrine, and the distinctive horizons of our contemporary world to develop a comprehensive and systematic christology for our time. The task of christology is to explain what it means to say that Jesus is the bearer and revealer of God in the Christ…
How to understand the meaning of Jesus Christ in the context of what modern cosmology tells us about the nature of the universe.
This is a book for new believers, lifelong followers, and the merely curious. Jesus is ____. How would you finish that sentence? The subject is there, and so is the verb, but what comes next? Your answer could shed light on the path to becoming who you were made to be. In these pages, Judah Smith fills out that sentence again and again, each time further revealing the character of Jes…