Contents
PREFACE
PART I QUESTIONS
OF METHOD
1. THEOLOGY AND
CHRISTOLOGY
Christian
Theology
Jesus Christ as
Symbol of God Christology and Theology
The Situation
of Christology
2. THE METHOD
OF CHRISTOLOGY
A Genetic
Structure of Understanding
A Hermeneutical
Method of Critical Correlation The Criteria for Christology
PART II BIBLICAL
SOURCES
3.
APPROPRIATING JESUS IN CHRISTOLOGY A Historical-Hermeneutical Approach
Jesus as
Prophet
Jesus as
Teacher
Jesus the
Healer
Jesus as Savior
or Liberator
The Jesus to Be
Appropriated
Conclusion
4. THE GOD OF
JESUS
God in Jewish
Tradition
God in Jesus'
Ministry
Synthetic
Reflections on the God of Jesus
5. JESUS'
RESURRECTION
A Hermeneutical
Perspective
The New
Testament Witness
Theoretical
Reconstruction of the Genesis of Faith in the Resurrection
The
Significance of the Resurrection
6. THE
PLURALISM OF NEW TESTAMENT SOTERIOLOGIES AND CHRISTOLOGIES
Preliminary
Reflections
Five New
Testament Christologies
The
Significance of the Pluralism of New Testament Christologies
PART III CLASSICAL
TRADITION
7. THE
STRUCTURE OF CHRISTOLOGY
The
Experiential and Historical Character of Every Encounter with God Jesus as the
Medium of Christian Faith
The Structure
of the Religious Symbol
The Symbolic
Structure of Christology
8. DEVELOPMENT
OF CLASSICAL SOTERIOLOGY
Eastern
Soteriology
Western
Soteriology
The Reformers
Experience of
Salvation in the Tradition
9. DEVELOPMENT
OF CLASSICAL CHRISTOLOGY
New Testament
Sources and Cultural Intelligibility
Development and
the Soteriological Norm
Jesus and God
The
Constitution of Jesus Christ
Conclusion
10.
INTERPRETING NICAEA AND CHALCEDON
The Meaning of
Nicaea
The Meaning of
Chalcedon
Conclusion
PART IV CONSTRUCTIVE
CHRISTOLOGY
11. BEYOND
SCHLEIERMACHER AND BARTH
Parameters of
Modern Christology
Toward
Postmodern Christology
Christology in
an Increasingly Postmodern Context
12. JESUS AS
SAVIOR
Foundations for
a Postmodern Soteriology
The Tradition
Currents in
Modern Soteriology
Jesus and
Salvation
13. LIBERATION
AND SALVATION: CHRISTOLOGY AND THE CHRISTIAN LIFE
The Varieties
of Liberation Theology
The Dynamics of
Liberation Theologies
The
Liberationist Interpretation of Jesus
Salvation and
the Christian Life
Eschatology
14. JESUS AND
THE WORLD RELIGIONS
Religious
Pluralism and the Christological Question
Assumptions and
Premises
The Normativity
of Jesus
Pluralism and
Dialogue
A New Context
for Christology
15. THE
DIVINITY OF JESUS CHRIST
Pluralism in
Christology
Logos
Christology
Spirit
Christology
Conclusion
16. TRINITY
The Question
Trinity from
Below
The Point of
Trinitarian Theology
Conclusion
APPENDIX 1
Notification of
the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith on the book, Jesus Symbol of God
(December 13, 2004; published in L'Osservatore Romano, February 7–8, 2005)
APPENDIX 2
Statement of
the Board of Directors, The Catholic Theological Society of America, With
Respect to the Notification Issued by the Congregation for the Doctrine of the
Faith concerning the book, Jesus Symbol of God, by Rev. Roger Haight, S.J., and
Prohibiting Fr. Haight from Teaching Catholic Theology (February 16, 2005)
