Jesus : essays in Christology Thomas G. Weinandy, OFM, Cap.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Christology and the Bible. Pope Benedict XVI: a biblical portrayal of Jesus -- The Son's filial relationship to the Father: Jesus as the new Moses -- The supremacy of Christ: Aquinas's Commentary on the Epistle to the Hebrews -- Historical and systematic Christology. The apostolic Christology of Ignatius of Antioch: the road to Chalcedon -- Athanasius: the incarnation and the soul of Christ -- The soul/body analogy and the incarnation: Cyril of Alexandria -- Cyril and the mystery of the incarnation -- Aquinas: God is man and the marvel of the incarnation -- Walter Cardinal Kasper: the mystery of Jesus Christ -- Trinitarian Christology: the eternal son -- The annunication and nativity: undoing the sinful act of Eve -- The human acts of Christ and the acts that are the sacraments -- Christology and contemporary issues. The case for spirit Christology: some reflections -- The symbolic theology of Roger Haight -- Terrence Tilley's christological impasses: the demise of the doctrine of the incarnation -- Gnosticism and contemporary soteriology -- The human "I" of Jesus -- Jesus's filial vision of the Father -- Thomas Joseph White's beatific vision of the incarnate Son: a response -- The Council of Chalcedon: some contemporary christological issues -- Dei verbum: the centrality of Jesus and Islam -- Christology and the Christian life. On the grace of humility: the University Church of St. Mary the Virgin, Quinquagesima Sunday, Feburary 13, 1994 -- You shall call his name Jesus -- The lifting-up of Jesus -- Holy Thursday and Good Friday: Jesus's Eucharistic commentary on the Paschal mystery -- The "Our Father": prayer of the crucified -- Giving the doubter his due -- The cosmic Christ -- Eucharistic adoration: encountering the mysteries -- Athanasius's letter to Marcellinus: a soteriological praying of the Psalms -- Huckleberry Finn and the adventures of God.