Description
Book SynopsisHow has this towering figure of history been seen over the past two millennia?
Table of ContentsContents
Acknowledgments 9
Introduction 11
Chapter 1: What is a Christ? 13
Chapter 2: Christ in Acts and the Early Letters 26
Chapter 3: Christ of the Gospels 40
Chapter 4: Getting it “Right”… Getting it “Wrong”…
Christ of the Creeds 56
Chapter 5: Now You See Him, Now You Don’t…
Portraying Christ 70
Chapter 6: Imperial Christ 85
Chapter 7: Christ of the Barbarians…
Beyond the Mediterranean Heartlands 101
Chapter 8: Christ of the Crusaders 117
Chapter 9: The Many-sided Christ of the Middle Ages 132
Chapter 10: Reigning from the Cross
or Suffering on the Cross? 148
Chapter 11: “Reformed” Church… “Reformed” Ideas
About Christ? 160
Chapter 12: “King Jesus and the Heads upon the Gate!” 176
Chapter 13: Christ in the Age of the Enlightenment and
Western Imperialism 188
Chapter 14: Christ in the Age of Total War and the Search
for a “Modern Christology” 202
Chapter 15: Christ with a Kalashnikov? 216
Chapter 16: Christ in the Developing World:
Some African and Asian Christologies 228
Chapter 17: Christ and the Power of the Holy Spirit 242
Chapter 18: Christ in Other Religions 255
Chapter 19: Postmodern Christ? 268
Picturing Christ 274
Web links to a number of the pictures referred to in
the book can be found here, listed by chapter.
References 277
Index 285
