Interim Report on the Books Jesus and Christ Volume VIII

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As a result of the publication of Jesus. An Experiment in Christology (volume 6) and Christ. The Christian Experience in the Modern World (volume 7), Schillebeeckx was accused of denying the divinity of Jesus and the resurrection as objective reality. In this ‘interim report’ he responds to these criticisms. Schillebeeckx argues that the interpretation of his publications depends to a large extent on what the reader takes as a starting point. This book, therefore, is about presuppositions and methods of interpretation. Schillebeeckx begins by looking once again at the nature of revelation, at the ways in which religious faith is experienced and expressed in the modern world, and at sources of authority. He then discusses specific criticisms. Can he be called a neo-liberal? Does he devalue the church’s tradition? Is his Christology inadequate? What does he really believe concerning the resurrection? Then, towards the end, in some poetically powerful passages, he turns once again to the nature of the Kingdom of God, creation and salvation. Cover HalfTitle Title Copyright How to use this book Contents Introduction to Collected Works of Edward Schillebeeckx Introduction to the new edition ‘Interim report’ Preface Introduction Chapter 1 The way to Christianity in a modern world Chapter 2 It began with an experience (a) Revelation and experience (b) Experience and interpretation (c) Interpretive experience and thinking in models Chapter 3 The experience of salvation in Jesus and the earliest Christian titles (a) The structure of the process of attributing titles to Jesus in the New Testament: the false dichotomy between a christology of function and a christology of essence (b) The historical study of Jesus (i) No neo-liberalism (ii) No preference for the Q tradition nor any neglect of Johannine theology and the church’s tradition (iii) Gains resulting from the acknowledgment of the theological relevance of a historical study of Jesus Chapter 4 Contemporary ways of naming Jesus: living tradition thanks to renewed experience (a) Critical correlation between then and today (i) Structural principles (ii) The modern experience of life and its Christian structure (b) Putting the critical correlation into practice Chapter 5 Fundamental points for discussion (a) Jesus, the Mosaic-messianic ‘eschatological prophet’ (b) Not underestimating Easter christology (c) Prolegomena, not yet christology (i) Misunderstandings associated with ‘first’ and ‘second order’statements of faith (ii) Prolegomena and the problem with I, 626-69 (d) Absence of the church? Chapter 6 Kingdom of God: creation and salvation (a) Creation as an act of God's trust in the human person (b) God's trust in man will ultimately not be put to shame (c) Creation: God lingering lovingly with the finite – the lowly (d) The proviso of the creator God (e) The inexhaustible surplus of nature (f) Eschatological surplus Chapter 7 I believe in Jesus of Nazareth (a) Christology: concentrated creation (b) The foundation of belief in Jesus Christ (i) The message and praxis of the kingdom of God (ii) Crucified, died and buried under Pontius Pilate (iii) Risen from the dead Epilogue: In your view, is Jesus still God? Yes or no?