Who is Jesus Christ for Us Today? : Evangelical Christology Seventeen Centuries after Nicaea (Paperback)

Introduction??1. The Way to Nicaea??2. Re-Creation through the Cross: Athanasius and the Atonement of Jesus Christ??3. Jonah, Jesus, and Nicene Christology: Exploring Biblical ‘Pressures’??4. The Mind of Christ: A Christological Centre for the doctrine of revelation??5. Kenosis, Plerosis, and God’s Redeeming Power in the World??6. Grace and Nature in the Context of Election and Christological Objectivism??7. The Continuing?Relative?Value of Chalcedonian Christology: A?Horizon?for the Pluralistic World Christianity??8. The Identity of Jesus Christ and the Limits of Christological Speculation: Bonhoeffer Sets the Scene??9. Christology, Drama, and Vicarious Representation: Hans Urs von Balthasar’s Theology of?Stellvertretung??10. The Difference Jesus Makes: Yuval Noah Harari and Wolfhart Pannenberg on the Shape of Universal History??11. What Does it Mean to Participate in Christ???12. Watchman Nee’s Spiritual Food Theology and the ‘Hunger’ in Contemporary China??13.?Black Christianities, Faith in Christ, and The Hope for Social Change??14. Jesus Christ in?A Secular Age??15. Revisiting the Death of Christ for the Twenty-First Century: Towards an Atonement Model for the Scum of the Earth??Coda:?On the Past, Present, and Futures of Jesus Christ:?deus pro nobis et ad mundo est