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Throughout the history of the church the doctrine of the person of Christ has been a centerpiece of theological reflection. In The Person of Christ Donald Macleod rearticulates this multifaceted doctrine. He begins with the New Testament and recent attempts to understand its Christology. Macleod then turns his attention to Christ in the history of Christian theology, examining the principal...

It is a virtual commonplace of modern Christology that we must begin with the humanity, not the divinity, of Jesus. As a result, the tide is set against a Christology ‘from above’ and is running strongly in favour of one ‘from below’. Wolfhart Pannenberg is typical. Having asserted that ‘the method of a Christology “from above” is closed to us’, he goes on to say: ‘Our starting point must lie in the question about the man Jesus; only in this way can we ask about his divinity.’1
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