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Christ in Focus: Radical Christocentricism in Christian Theology

Radical Christocentricism in Christian Theology

  • Paperback
  • 260 pages
  • Publisher: SCM
  • 21.6 x 27.7 x 13.5 cm

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Christ in Focus demonstrates why the figure of Christ is so central for Christian faith and thought. It starts by asking what constitutes the focus or centre of Christian theology? In opposition to the way in which the trinity is being reasserted as the lynchpin of Christianity, this book argues that Christianity loses its soul when it is not Christocentric.

Part One examines the way in which Christian theology works methodologically. Christology may not be the starting point of a systematic Christian theology, but this book argues that it must be the focus. The dangers in seeking to maintain a Christocentric focus are drawn out as a catalogue of distortions of Christocentricism.

Part Two turns attention to the kind of Christology needed to sustain such a radical Christocentricism. In a series of critical dialogues, with the work of Schleiermacher, Rauschenbusch and Brock respectively, the author develops a corporate Christology adequate for today. It is argued that talk of 'dependence upon Christ' has, to date, turned Christians inward, or found them appealing to a past, isolated male saviour figure. In critiquing such an approach, an understanding of the contemporary Christ is developed; Christ as an empowering presence, for the many communal settings in which people live their lives today.

Christ in Focus: Radical Christocentricism in Christian Theology and So What's The Story?
So What's The Story?Christ in Focus: Radical Christocentricism in Christian Theology
  • Author

    Clive Marsh

  • Book Format

    paperback

  • Publisher

    SCM

  • Published

    November 2005

  • Weight

    19g

  • Page Count

    260

  • Dimensions

    21.6 x 27.7 x 13.5 cm

  • ISBN

    9780334029816

  • ISBN-10

    0334029813

  • Eden Code

    105958

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