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Contemporary Christologies: A Fortress Introduction is unavailable, but you can change that!

While many know of the signal contributions of such twentieth-century giants as Paul Tillich or Karl Barth or Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, the important work since their time often goes unnoticed until some major controversy erupts. Here is a smart and helpful survey of the chief approaches and thinkers in today’s understanding of the person, significance, and work of Jesus Christ. Schweitzer...

person like others and yet, as the Christ, was distinct in his relation to God.2 Most contemporary Christologies continue the long tradition of trying to understand what this distinction was and how it came to be. The second focus of Christologies is on Jesus’ work, or saving significance. Jesus was understood to be the Christ because he was seen to save or benefit people, delivering them from various forms of sin, evil, and suffering, empowering them to do the good either through his teaching, his
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