Overview

Jesus’ particular Jewish existence (his human nature) and his universal transcendence (his divine nature) are brought together here in the construction of a Christology that proposes the equality, unity, and full participation of both natures. Using frameworks from multicultural theory, it identifies the processes by which Christologies have historically negotiated difference in the Incarnation, and explains why uniting the two natures of Christ consistently and problematically supplants Jesus’ Jewishness. This conceptual framework unites the two natures without sublimating their differences, by proposing a contextual universalism. ’Overlapping membership’ offers the means whereby the particular, Jewish, human nature and the universal, divine nature of Jesus Christ engage in an ongoing dialogue and formation in the one person of the Incarnation. This work offers a new way of understanding the two natures of Christ that brings together historical understandings with contemporary contextual Christologies, enabling us to find a way to understand Christ as both truly human and fully divine.

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Author:   Kayko Driedger Hesslein (Graduate Theological Union, USA)
Publisher:   Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Imprint:   T.& T.Clark Ltd
Dimensions:   Width: 15.60cm , Height: 2.30cm , Length: 23.40cm
Weight:   0.476kg
ISBN:  

9780567661357

ISBN 10:   0567661350
Pages:   224
Publication Date:   18 June 2015
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Undergraduate ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   Manufactured on demand  
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Table of Contents

Table of Contents Part I - Dual Citizenship Chapter 1 - Introduction - Nonsupersessionist Theology and the Challenge of Incarnational Theology Chapter 2 - But You Can't be Both! - Multiple Loyalties in Theories of Multiculturalism Part II - Constituent Parts Chapter 3 - Contextual: Jesus as Human Citizen Chapter 4 - Universal: Jesus as Divine Expatriate Part III - Establishing Relationships Chapter 5 - Living in the Diaspora - Overlapping Memberships in the One Person Chapter 6 - You Never Leave Your Homeland Behind - Contextual Universalism in the Two Natures Part IV - The Transparticular Person - Passing Through Chalcedon Chapter 7 - At Home - The Contextual Universals of the Jewish Jesus Chapter 8 - Living Abroad - The Overlapping Memberships of the Living Christ Acknowledgements Notes Bibliography

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Kayko Driedger Hesslein (PhD, Graduate Theological Union, USA) is an ordained minister of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Canada.

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