This original, seminal, and subtle statement of Christology touches so many issues that it deserves to be read widely, pondered repeatedly, and assessed from multiple standpoints. Originally published eight years ago in serial form in Crossroads, the essays are followed by a meditation for Passion Week and prefaced by self-critical assessment showing how Frei's thinking has changed at certain points. Frei's Christology emerges from the interplay of three themes: hermeneutics (realistic reading of the Gospels), identity, and presence (resurrection). The thesis is clearly stated at the outset: "To have Christ present is to know who he is and to be persuaded that he lives" (p. 6). Frei, Professor of Religious Studies at Yale, is not at all interested in establishing the possibility or necessity of Christology; instead he resolutely explores the inner rationale of Christian faith, which includes the experience of Christ's presence. Therefore he assumes throughout that Jesus Christ is who the New Testament says he is-a unique person whose mode of presence is finally without real parallel. This, he contends, is given in Christian faith and hence, is subject matter to be clarified, not justified.

The identity of Jesus Christ: The hermeneutical bases of dogmatic theology

Religion & Spirituality

Frei, Hans W.

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<p>Ephesians, Colossians, 2 Thessalonians, the Pastoral Epistles (Proclamation Commentaries)</p>

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J. Paul Sampley, et al.

The Triune Identity: God according to the Gospel

The Triune Identity: God According to the Gospel

Jenson, Robert W.

Keeping the Faith

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The life of Jesus, critically examined (Lives of Jesus series)

David Friedrich Strauss

Understandings of the church (Sources of early Christian thought)

E.Glenn Hinson

Forerunners of the Reformation: The shape of late medieval thought

Oberman, Heiko A.

Discipleship in the New Testament

Fernando F. Segovia

So-Called Historical Jesus and the Historic-Biblical Christ

Kähler, Martin

The first complete account in English of the American Lutheran controversy of 1849-1867 Tension between a religion's heritage and its social context forms the everpresent question of group identity. In the United States, this question has been posed in a particular way for religious traditions as the tension between "Americanization"-being assimilated into social and cultural structures of the new world-and "confessional identity"-seeking to sustain and understand a religious heritage in light of a new context and its questions. Lutherans in the mid-nineteenth century provide one illustration of this social and theological tension. The first part shows how, in spite of Henry Melchior Muhlenberg's efforts, early Lutheranism adopted congregational polity, democratic structures, voluntary membership, and freer liturgical forms. Then the formation of the General Synod (1820) is traced and its chief spokespersons and their theological and practical innovations highlighted. Gustafson locates the movements toward confessional revival among Lutherans in Germany-many of whom emigrated to the United States in the 1830s-in reaction to unification with the Reformed. The final chapters chart the actual controversy (1849-1867) between the less confessional Lutherans of the General Synod and the recent, more confessional Lutheran immigrants. "Gustafson shows that Lutherans today can learn a lesson from the nineteenth-century struggle for Lutheran identity. The confessional Lutheran part issued a 'call to faithfulness' at a time when major voices were inviting Lutherans to join the melting pot of American Protestantism. Lutherans still stand at a crossroads between Protestantism and Catholicism, caught in the struggle over their own identity and mission. Lutherans in Crisis sheds the light of our past on the path of our future. Without this light we would be completely in the dark." -Carl E. Braaten Lutheran School of Theology David A. Gustafson, who received his PhD from the Graduate School of Union Institute, served elca parishes in Wisconsin for most of his career. At the time of his death in 2001, he was teaching Church History at the University of Saint Thomas in Saint Paul, Minnesota.

Lutherans in Crisis Op

Gustafson, David A.

History

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