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This Oxford Reader encompasses the two-thousand year history of responses to Jesus of Nazareth. The selected readings are arranged into seven chronological chapters, which are in turn organized thematically. More than 340 extracts are included, with familiar materials from key texts in the history of doctrine presented alongside a diverse sample of devotional, popular, liturgical, historical-critical, philosophical, and mystical texts. There are extracts from poems, songs, and plays, as well as polemics, commentaries, manifestos, treatises, letters, novels, liturgies, and creeds. The full range of responses to Jesus are represented in texts from Eastern and Western Christianity, both Catholic and Protestant, and additionally Jewish, Islamic, Hindu, Buddhist, and Zoroastrian texts. Spanning heterodoxy and radical thinking, this Reader presents an absorbing and many-sided picture of the wealth of responses to Jesus.

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Author:   David F. Ford (, Regius Professor of Divinity, University of Cambridge) ,  Mike Higton (, Lecturer in Theology, University of Exeter)
Publisher:   Oxford University Press
Imprint:   Oxford University Press
Dimensions:   Width: 15.60cm , Height: 3.00cm , Length: 23.20cm
Weight:   0.812kg
ISBN:  

9780192893161

ISBN 10:   0192893165
Pages:   594
Publication Date:   14 February 2002
Audience:   General/trade ,  College/higher education ,  General ,  Undergraduate
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

GENERAL INTRODUCTION Part 1. BIBLICAL AND PATRISTIC: To AD 451 A. The Life of Jesus B. Jesus the Saviour C. Typology and Apology D. The Development of Christianity Part 2. BYZANTINE AND EARLY MEDIEVAL: 451 - 1208 A. Contemplating Christ B. Christ and Culture C. Byzantine and Early Medieval Debates D. Christ beyond Christianity Part 3. LATER MEDIEVAL AND RENAISSANCE: 1209-1516 A. Following Christ B. The Benefits of Christ's Passion C. Jesus and Judaism Part 4. REFORMATION AND COUNTER-REFORMATION: 1517-1600 A. Christ and his Benefits B. Christ in Word and Sacrament C. Christ in Two Natures D. Pursuing Christ Part 5. EARLY MODERNITY: 1601-1789 A. The Drama of Christ B. Crucified for Me C. Union with Christ D. Discussing Doctrine E. The Enlightenment Part 6. THE NINETEENTH CENTURY: 1790 - 1913 A. The Historical Jesus B. Humility C. Christ and the Spirit D. Life in Christ E. Looking Eastwards Part 7. THE TWENTIETH CENTURY: 1914 - 2000 A. Crisis B. The Historical Jesus? C. Christ and Salvation D. Retelling the Story E. God Incarnate F. Jesus beyond Christianity G. The Face of Christ

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David F. Ford is Regius Professor of Divinity at the University of Cambridge. He was previously Senior Lecturer at the University of Birmingham, and is a past-president of the Society for the Study of Theology. He is author of 'Theology: A Very Short Introduction' (OUP). Mike Higton shares his time between the Department of Theology and of Lifelong Learning in the University of Exeter, having moved from Cambridge University where he held the Naden Studentship for Research in Divinity at St John's College.

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