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Book SynopsisThis Oxford Reader encompasses the two-thousand year history of responses to Jesus of Nazareth. The selected readings are arranged into seven chronological chapters, which are in turn organized thematically. More than 340 extracts are included, with familiar materials from key texts in the history of doctrine presented alongside a diverse sample of devotional, popular, liturgical, historical-critical, philosophical, and mystical texts. There are extracts from poems, songs, and plays, as well as polemics, commentaries, manifestos, treatises, letters, novels, liturgies, and creeds. The full range of responses to Jesus are represented in texts from Eastern and Western Christianity, both Catholic and Protestant, and additionally Jewish, Islamic, Hindu, Buddhist, and Zoroastrian texts. Spanning heterodoxy and radical thinking, this Reader presents an absorbing and many-sided picture of the wealth of responses to Jesus.
Table of ContentsGENERAL INTRODUCTION ; PART 1. BIBLICAL AND PATRISTIC: TO AD 451 ; A. THE LIFE OF JESUS ; B. JESUS THE SAVIOUR ; C. TYPOLOGY AND APOLOGY ; D. THE DEVELOPMENT OF CHRISTIANITY ; PART 2. BYZANTINE AND EARLY MEDIEVAL: 451 - 1208 ; A. CONTEMPLATING CHRIST ; B. CHRIST AND CULTURE ; C. BYZANTINE AND EARLY MEDIEVAL DEBATES ; D. CHRIST BEYOND CHRISTIANITY ; PART 3. LATER MEDIEVAL AND RENAISSANCE: 1209-1516 ; A. FOLLOWING CHRIST ; B. THE BENEFITS OF CHRIST'S PASSION ; C. JESUS AND JUDAISM ; PART 4. REFORMATION AND COUNTER-REFORMATION: 1517-1600 ; A. CHRIST AND HIS BENEFITS ; B. CHRIST IN WORD AND SACRAMENT ; C. CHRIST IN TWO NATURES ; D. PURSUING CHRIST ; PART 5. EARLY MODERNITY: 1601-1789 ; A. THE DRAMA OF CHRIST ; B. CRUCIFIED FOR ME ; C. UNION WITH CHRIST ; D. DISCUSSING DOCTRINE ; E. THE ENLIGHTENMENT ; PART 6. THE NINETEENTH CENTURY: 1790 - 1913 ; A. THE HISTORICAL JESUS ; B. HUMILITY ; C. CHRIST AND THE SPIRIT ; D. LIFE IN CHRIST E. LOOKING EASTWARDS ; PART 7. THE TWENTIETH CENTURY: 1914 - 2000 ; A. CRISIS ; B. THE HISTORICAL JESUS? ; C. CHRIST AND SALVATION ; D. RETELLING THE STORY ; E. GOD INCARNATE ; F. JESUS BEYOND CHRISTIANITY ; G. THE FACE OF CHRIST
