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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...

From the standpoint of the New Testament the question could be understood in two ways. a. It could refer to the cosmic dimension of redemption. In the New Testament kosmos can denote the world as the “ordered universe” (Jn 17:5; Lk 11:50; Acts 17:24; 1 Cor 8:4). Paul sees the effects of the Christ-event spilling over and influencing not only human beings, but even material or physical creation in general. In Romans 11:15 he