Christ Unabridged

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A deep and scholarly study on the person of Christ as Son of Man from an impressive array of key theological and philosophical thinkers, including NT Wright, Lydia Schumacher and Oliver O'Donovan. Poetic interludes from renowned poet and scholar Malcolm Guite creatively shed a different light on the subject.

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• Publié par: Hymns Ancient & Modern
• Date de parution: 30 novembre 2019
• Nombre de lectures: 0
• EAN13: 9780334058304
• Langue: English

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Christ Unabridged

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Contents
List of Contributors
Acknowledgements
Introduction – Christ Unabridged
Poem: Good Measure
1  One Mystery in Many Forms
George Westhaver
Part 1 – Christ the True Temple, True Sabbath and True Human Being
Poem: Strange Surprise
2  Son of Man and New Creation: The Biblical Roots of Trinitarian Theology
N. T. Wright
3  The Son of Man in the Gospel of John
John Behr
Part 2 – Christ the Word and Wisdom of God in Human Form
Poem: The Naming of Jesus
4  ‘From a Human Point of View’: The Problem of Knowing Christ in Chalcedonian Perspective
Ian A. McFarland
5  Sound and Silence in Augustine’s Christological Interpretation of Scripture
Carol Harrison
6  How Could the Earthly Jesus Have Taught Divine Truth?
Simon Francis Gaine
Part 3 – Christ the Centre Indwelling and Perfecting All Things
Poem: Everything Holds Together
7  The Centre of Everywhere: Cosmic Christology in Early Franciscan Thought
Lydia Schumacher
8  Christ in the Eucharist
Andrew Louth
9  An Augustinian Sensibility: The Whole Christ in Hooker’s Lawes of Ecclesiastical Polity
Paul Dominiak
10  Reasoning upon the Essentials: Chalcedonian Sacramentalism in Andrewes and Bramhall
David Curry
11  The Christology of the French School
Robin Ward
Part 4 – Christ the Universal Paradigm and Local Habitation
Poem: Ascension Day
12  What is Christ’s Humanity? Some Nineteenth-century Answers and their Patristic Roots
Johannes Zachhuber
13  The Oxford Movement and the Incarnation
George Westhaver
14  Christ and the Poetic Imagination
Malcolm Guite
Part 5 – Christ the Saviour Irreducible and Complete
Poem: Before Abraham Was I AM
15  The Work of a Theologian in the Body of Christ
Lewis Ayres
16  Salvation in Christ: Six Models
Kallistos Ware
17  Christ and the Oriental Orthodox ‘Miaphysite’ Tradition
Polycarpus Augin Aydin
18  Christ the Categorical Imperative
Oliver O’Donovan
Conclusion – Knowing and Loving the Son of Man
Poem: Heaven in Ordinary
19  ‘On Christ, the solid rock, I stand’
Rowan Williams
20  The Shape of Hope, a Sermon
Anthony Burton
Acknowledgements of Sources
Index of Biblical References
Index of Names and Subjects
List of Contributors
L ewis Ayres , Professor of Catholic and Historical Theology at Durham University, and Professorial Fellow at the Institute for Religion and Critical Inquiry of the Australian Catholic University in Melbourne.
John Behr , Fr Georges Florovsky Distinguished Professor of Patristics at St Vladimir’s Seminary, New York, and Metropolitan Kallistos Chair of Orthodox Theology, Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam.
Anthony Burton , Rector of the Church of the Incarnation, Dallas, and sometime Bishop of Saskatchewan, Canada.
David Curry , Rector of Christ Church, and Chaplain and Teacher at King’s-Edgehill School, Windsor, Nova Scotia.
Paul Dominiak , Vice Principal of Westcott House, Cambridge.
Simon Francis Gaine, O.P. , Fellow of Blackfriars, Oxford, and Regent of the English Dominicans.
Malcolm Guite , Poet, writer, and Chaplain of Girton College, Cambridge.
Carol Harrison , Lady Margaret Professor of Divinity and Canon of Christ Church, Oxford.
Andrew Louth , Professor Emeritus of Patristic and Byzantine Studies in the Department of Theology and Religion at Durham University, and Rector of the Orthodox Parish of St Cuthbert and St Bede, Durham.
Ian McFarland , Robert W. Woodruff Professor of Theology at Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia, sometime Regius Professor of Divinity in the University of Cambridge.
Oliver O’Donovan , Professor Emeritus in Christian Ethics and Practical Theology at the School of Divinity in the University of Edinburgh, and sometime Regius Professor of Moral and Pastoral Theology and Canon of Christ Church, Oxford.
Polycarpus Augin Aydin , Metropolitan and Patriarchal Vicar for the Archdiocese of the Netherlands of the Syriac Orthodox Church.
Lydia Schumacher , Reader in Historical and Philosophical Theology at King’s College London, and Director of the European Research Council Project on Early Franciscan Thought.
Robin Ward , Principal of St Stephen’s House, Oxford.
Kallistos Ware , Assistant Bishop in the Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of Thyateira and Great Britain, sometime Spalding Lecturer of Eastern Orthodox Studies at the University of Oxford and Fellow of Pembroke College, Oxford.
George Westhaver , Principal of Pusey House, Oxford.
Rowan Williams , Master of Magdalene College, Cambridge, sometime Archbishop of Canterbury and Lady Margaret Professor of Divinity, Oxford.
N. T. Wright , Professor of New Testament and Early Christianity at the University of St Andrews, and Senior Research Fellow at Wycliffe Hall, Oxford, sometime Bishop of Durham, Dean of Lichfield, and Canon of Westminster.
Johannes Zachhuber , Professor of Historical and Systematic Theology, Fellow and Tutor in Theology at Trinity College, Oxford.
Acknowledgements
This volume draws together and develops the papers presented at the conference ‘ Totus Christus : Knowing and Loving the Son of Man’, 9–11 July 2018 at Pusey House, Oxford. In other words, behind this book lies the labour of those who helped to fund, organize and assist the running of the conference. Petter Kringberg produced publicity and service booklets, as well as coordinating the large team of volunteers who cheerfully assisted with different tasks and jobs each day. Ryan Cox kept the House in order and running smoothly. The librarian Anna James welcomed visitors and booksellers to the library and to the House, and once again provided the pains au chocolat at breakfast. The steward Karen Westhaver ensured that our guests had a place to stay. Louis Harris helped with recording the lectures. We are especially grateful for the support and gracious cooperation of St Cross College, with whom Pusey House shares both buildings and a common life. The hard work of Flori Olteanu and the catering team at St Cross produced the refreshments and the fine meals that sustained us during three of the hottest days of the summer. The sacristan Richard Keeble enabled us to offer edifying worship by coordinating the serving teams at the liturgies. The Master of the Music Matthew Reese, the choir, and all the angels attending upon us, beautified and elevated the worship. We are also most grateful to Archpriest Stephen Platt, Rector of the Parish of St Nicholas the Wonderworker, and to Fr Ian Graham, parish priest of the Greek Orthodox community of the Holy Trinity, for leading Vespers one evening at the conference.
Finally, the book came to fruition only with the support and encouragement of David Shervington and Mary Matthews at SCM, and all who worked with them, including Rachel Geddes and Kate Hughes. We are grateful to Francis Young for again producing the index for this volume. We would also like to thank David Harris for his work on designing the book cover, and the Society of Antiquaries, London, for permission to use the image ‘Dream of the Virgin’ by Simone dei Crocifissi (1330–99), an image that evokes at least some of the many registers of the Totus Christus explored in this book.
We are especially grateful to the following sponsors whose support made the conference and the ensuing volume possible:
The Fellowship of St Alban and St Sergius
The Anglican Association
The Prayer Book Society
The Anglican and Eastern Churches Association
The St Theosevia Centre for Christian Spirituality
Lady Peel Legacy Trust