Some years ago the director of Chicago Studies asked me to prepare a brief survey of New Testament christological problems for his “Pastoral Guide to the Bible.”1 It was simply entitled “Jesus the Lord” and proposed succinct answers to fifteen questions which the director had sent to me. The entire pastoral guide was eventually translated into Italian under the title Catechismo biblico.2 Later on, the director of La Nouvelle Revue Théologique requested that the article be updated and revised