Eric Voegelin on the Incarnate Christ
In his 1965 Ingersoll Lecture “Immortality: Experience and Symbol” Eric Voegelin declared that “the symbolism of incarnation would express the experience, with a date in history, of…
A Phenomenology of Jesus Forsaken
It is not difficult to find reasons to justify a phenomenological approach to the events narrated in the Gospels. The Greek etymology of the word phenomenon –…
One Jesus for Jews, Another for Christians
I. Prospective and Perspective This article offers a revisualization of Jesus, not as a Christian diptych representing Jesus and Christ, the before-and-after-the-Crucifixion figures of conventional historical and…
Eschatology, Geography, and the Advancing Jesus Movement
It will be useful to return to the theme of time and space, which we noted in our second chapter on the New Testament materials. We recall…
Participation and Interpretation Theory
We have endeavored to practice the craft of biblical interpretation along the lines of our participative approach, on the premise that all forms of interpretation might be…
Mapping the Different Approaches
Readers will likely know that Jesus studies and Christology, like other fields of study, exist within an intense conflict of approaches, stemming from the social and historical…
Being, Becoming, and Metaphysics
Being, Becoming, and Metaphysics The reader will have noticed that we have used the language of “being” throughout this entire book. The book’s commitment to history and…
History and Place, Historiogenesis and Geogenesis
History and Place, Historiogenesis and Geogenesis We have seen how our contemporary cross-cultural, global horizon has introduced some new challenges to Christian faith, some of which are…
Is Plato Necessary for Salvation?
"It would seem that in no way can reading Plato be necessary for salvation, since Jesus Christ alone is the Way, the Truth, and the Life. Yet Plato…
The Forsaken Jesus and the Black Sun of Atheism
The Black Sun In an essay he wrote entitled: Atheism and Monotheism Jean-Luc Nancy used the metaphor of the “black sun” to describe atheism. He writes: “The…
Jesus and the Unknown God
In the historical drama of revelation, the Unknown God ultimately becomes the God known through His presence in Christ. This drama, though it has been alive in…
The Divine Sonship: Not a Piece of Information
At a time when the reality of the gospel threatens to fall apart into the constructions of an historical Jesus and a doctrinal Christ, one cannot stress…
The Pauline Vision of the Resurrected
1. The Pauline Theophany The potential of distortion through metastatic imagination, it should be understood, is inherent to the mystery of meaning. If the mystery were not…