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An in-depth study of Kierkegaard's thinking on Christology, emphasising the radical nature of his approach to the incarnation, with an emphasis on the call of the Christian believer to a life of 'kenotic' (self-emptying) discipleship in imitation of Christ.--

Reseña de la obra de: Cahill, L. S. (2013) Global Justice, Christology and Christian Ethics, Nueva York, Cambridge University Press, 312 pp.

"Global realities of human inequality, poverty, violence and ecological destruction call for a twenty-first-century Christian response which links cross-cultural and interreligious cooperation for change to the Gospel. This book demonstrates why just action is necessarily a criterion of authentic Christian theology, and gives grounds for Christian hope that change in violent structures is really possible. Lisa Sowle Cahill argues that theology and biblical interpretation are already embedded in and indebted to ethical-political practices and choices. Within this ecumenical study, she explores the use of the historical Jesus in constructive theology; the merits of Word and Spirit Christologies; the importance of liberation and feminist theologies as well as theologies from the global south; and also the possibility of qualified moral universalism. The book will be of great interest to all students of theology, religious ethics and politics, and biblical studies"--

Intro -- Unveiling God -- Contents -- Foreword -- Introduction -- Chapter 1: Christologies Used in Islamic Contexts -- Chapter 2: Monotheism in First Century Judaism -- Chapter 3: Contextualisation of Christology in the NT: Using the Existing Concept of Monotheism -- Chapter 4: Contextualisation of Christology in the NT: Using Jewish Concepts of Theophany, Epiphany and Monolatry -- Chapter 5: Monotheism in the Islamic Context -- Chapter 6: Contextualising Christology for Islamic Culture -- Conclusions -- Glossary of key Islamic terms -- APPENDIX A: Evolutionary Christology -- APPENDIX B: Second Temple Jewish Monotheism and the Origins of NT Christology: The Scholarly Debate -- APPENDIX C: Profile of Islamic Texts -- APPENDIX D: The Effect of Gender Reversal Reading on the Lover/Beloved Imagery in mystical Poetry -- Bibliography -- Index of modern scholars -- Index of primary sources -- Subject index.

Abstract
Theodore the Studite resolved the logical problem posed by the second Iconoclasm in an explicitly paraconsistent way, when he applied to Jesus the definition of the human hypostasis while stating that there is no human hypostasis in Jesus. Methodologically he was following, albeit without knowing, Eulogius of Alexandria. He, in turn, was apparently followed by Photius, but in a confused manner.

The problem of John's Christology and the three-headed dog of Rome -- Reading the whole story : strategies of survival -- Story as subversion : John's little countermemory -- Caiaphas : Caesar's accomplice -- Pontius Pilate : truth, terror, torture -- The cross as a tale of terror : Rome's perspective -- The cross inverted : John's perspective -- The cross as triumph : the perspective of the Johannine Jesus -- The inversion of empire : faith, hope, and power