Christology of John Macquarrie.

Contents -- John Macquarrie's Significance in Contemporary Theology -- The State of the Study of the Topic -- The Focus of the Book -- Macquarrie's Intellectual Influences -- Biographical Background -- Charles Arthur Campbell -- F.H. Bradley -- Henderson, Heidegger, and Bultmann -- Other Influences on Macquarrie's Thought -- Macquarrie and the Anthropocentric Shape of Modern Theology -- The Birth of Modern Critical Theology -- The Development of Modernity and Its Influence on Theology -- Modern Theology and Human Experience -- Macquarrie's Theological Methodology -- Method and Reason -- Reason and Experience in Theology -- The Vindication of Theological Method -- The Concept of Truth in Modern Theology -- Macquarrie's Approach to Doing Modern Theology -- Theological Typologies -- The Formative Factors in Macquarrie's Theology -- Experience -- Revelation -- Scripture -- Tradition -- Culture -- Reason -- Implications of Macquarrie's Theological Methodology -- Macquarrie and the Language of Theology -- Language and Truth in Theology -- The Logic of Theological Language -- F.H. Bradley and Degrees of Truth -- Macquarrie's Debt to Heidegger -- The Purpose of Human Language -- Objectivity and Subjectivity in Theology -- Truth and Feeling -- Schleiermacher and Truth -- Evaluating a Particular Theology -- Theology and Polar Tensionality -- Judging Theological Truth Claims -- The Language of Myth as Truth -- Mystery and Truth -- Mystery and Myth -- The Significance of Myth -- What is the Gospel? -- The Pluriformity of the Gospel and the Possibility of Heresy -- Lindbeck and Macquarrie -- Christology in the Existential Key -- Macquarrie's Glasgow Dissertation -- The Issue of Demythologization -- The Jesus of History, the Christ of Faith, and Existentialism -- The Humanity of Christ -- Preexistence and a New Kenoticism.

Systematic Christology in the Existential- Ontological Key -- Christ and the Holy Trinity -- The Person of Christ -- This Historical Jesus -- Constructing a Modern Christology -- The Anthropological Basis of Existential Christology -- Modern Christology and the World Religions -- Christology and Mystery -- The Problem of Preexistence -- Christ and Hope -- The Problems of Modern Christological Inquiry -- The Two Problems of Modern Christology -- The Illegitimacy of Divorcing the Jesus of History from the Christ of Faith -- Criticism of Functional Christology -- The Complexity of Christology -- Mythology and History in Christology -- Christology and the Inadequacy of our Conceptual Tools -- The Idea of the Christ-Event -- The Problem of the Incarnation -- Christology and the Enlightenment -- Understanding the Historical Context of Early Christology -- The Jewish Context of Christology -- Transcendence and Immanence in Christology -- Christology and Apocalypticism -- Macquarrie's Interpretation of Contemporary New Testament Christology -- Historical Issues in Christology -- Macquarrie's Analysis of the Christological Titles -- Jesus as Messiah -- Jesus as Son of Man -- Jesus as the Son of God -- Jesus as the Word -- Jesus as Lord -- Jesus as God -- The Witness of Paul to the Historical Jesus -- Paul and the Incarnation -- The Witness of the Synoptic Gospels -- The Reason for Jesus' Death -- The Witness of John -- Other New Testament Witnesses -- Hebrews -- Peter -- Ephesians -- Macquarrie's Summary and Assessment of New Testament Christology -- Macquarrie's Evaluation of Classical to Modern Christology -- The Rise of Classical Christology -- Rationalist Christology -- Schleiermacher's Christology -- Hegelian and Post-Hegelian Christology -- Kierkegaard and Kenoticism -- Nineteenth Century Liberal Christology -- Positivist Christology.

Troeltsch's Christology -- Responses to Nineteenth-Century Liberal Christology -- Christologies of the Late Twentieth-Century -- Neo-orthodoxy -- Rahner -- Teilhard de Chardin -- Moltmann -- Pannenberg -- D.M. Baillie -- Pittenger -- Ogden -- J.A.T. Robinson -- Chapter Summary -- Macquarrie's Constructive Christology: " Who Really Is Jesus Christ For Us Today?" -- Formulating the Christology Problem for Today -- The Historical Problem in Christology -- The Humanity of Jesus Christ -- Jesus as the Representative Human -- Truly Human, Truly God? -- The Mysteries of Jesus Christ -- The Problem of the so-called Preexistence of Christ -- Jesus' Nativity -- Jesus' Baptism -- The Sinlessness of Jesus Christ -- Jesus and the Transfiguration -- The Death of Jesus Christ: Its Meaning and Significance -- Christ's Resurrection -- Macquarrie's Austere Ending -- Jesus Christ Among the Religions -- Jesus in the World of Pluralism -- The Problems and Limitations of Pluralism -- Macquarrie and Paul Knitter -- An Evaluation -- The Nature and Crisis of Modern Christology -- The Idea of Modern Christology -- William M. Thompson's Modern Roman Catholic Christology -- Jesus and the Divine -- Jesus and the Self -- Two Basic Responses to the Mystery of the Incarnation -- Antiochene and Alexandrian Christologies -- Orthodoxy or Christopraxy -- Jesus and Salvation -- The Uniqueness of Jesus -- New Developments in Thompson's Christological Perspective -- Christology as Scripture Reflection on the Christ-Event -- Jesus as the -- Incarnate -- Conclusion -- Dialectical Theism, Anthropology, and Christology -- Introduction -- Dialectical Theism -- The Problem of the Theological Use of Heidegger -- God and Creation -- Dialectical Theism and Divine Omnipotence -- The Dialectical Conception of God -- Natural Theology and the Incarnation -- The Problem of Divine Agency.

Dialectical Theism and the Humanization of God -- Divine Agency and the Incarnation -- Is Macquarrie's Christology a Degree Christology? -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Introduction -- Chapter One -- Chapter Two -- Chapter Three -- Chapter Four -- Chapter Five -- Chapter Six -- Chapter Seven -- Chapter Eight -- Chapter Nine -- Chapter Ten -- Chapter Eleven -- Chapter Twelve -- Bibliography -- Primary Works -- Secondary Works -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- V -- W.