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A Christological Catechism: New Testament Answers is unavailable, but you can change that!

Joseph A. Fitzmyer presents 25 succinctly phrased and candidly answered questions about Jesus. His book covers issues such as the virgin birth, the infancy narratives, Jesus’ claim to be the messiah, the historical accuracy and significance of the resurrection and ascension texts, the place of Peter and the apostles, the importance of the Apocryphal gospels, and more. This book holds insights for...

Such titles are important data in the New Testament for its explicit christological teaching about Jesus and his role in the divine plan of salvation. For the most part, they are titles born of Christian, post-resurrectional faith and represent confessional affirmations about him. Early Christians clearly used them, but the problem is to explain their emergence. Three questions have to be asked about them: