Jesus: Among the Theologians

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“Even before the Council of Nicaea (325 C.E.) theologians had been arguing about the essence and nature of Jesus, the Christ. Since the New Testament sheds no light on whether or not Jesus was fully human or fully divine, such speculations were left to later thinkers. From the deliberations of early church councils came a bewildering array of opinions about the nature of Christ. As Christianity evolved, theologians took up one or the other of these points of view and developed them into tenaciously held christological positions that defined entire generations of believers and even entire Christian movements. In Jesus Among the Theologians, William La Due provides an accessible overview of the work of twenty-three representative Catholic and Protestant theologians who have made major contributions to the christological dialogue of the last fifty years. Theologians examined here include: Bernard Lonergan, Karl Rahner, Karl Barth, Rudolph Bultmann, Jürgen Moltmann, John A. T. Robinson, John Macquarrie, Hans Küng, Edward Schillebeeckx, John Cobb, Jr., Jon Sobrino, Leonardo Boff, Anne Carr, Elisabeth Schüssler Fiorenza, and others. William J. La Due taught canon law at Catholic University, and is the author of The Chair of Saint Peter: A History of the Papacy. He lives in Tucson, Arizona.”