This work is a presentation of the truth of Jesus Christ from the viewpoint of liberation - from Jesus's options for the poor, his confrontation with the powerful and the persecution and death this brought him. Building and expanding on his previous works, Jon Sobrino develops a Christology that shows how to meet the mystery of God, all God ""Father"" and call this Jesus ""the Christ"".
Written to Supplement the Proclamation Commentaries volumes, Matthew, Mark, and Luke, this book not only enables the reader to get a better grasp of the similarities and differences in the christological pictures of Matthew, Mark, and Luke, but - by taking into account the scholarly discussion of the sayings-source "Q" - it also broadens the scope of the entire series.
In this long-awaited book, John Macquarrie turns to one of the few areas of Christian theology to which he has not yet devoted systematic attentionâthat of christology. After an introductory chapter, the first part considers the main New Testament sources and also the period up to and including âclassical theology.â A second part examines the Enlightenment and post-Enlightenment …