Jesus God and Man
God and Man
1st Edition
Published on 26. January 2013
526 pages
978-0-334-04855-8 (ISBN)
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Wolfhart Pannenberg is one of the giants of twentieth century German systematic theology, and all serious students of German doctrine are obligied to take account of his work. In particular, his weighty but succinct single-volume systematics, "Jesus - God and Man" - which was first published in English in 1968, and which has since formed the basis of countless courses and seminars in the field (as well as the inspiration behind many dissertations) - is perhaps the single publication by Pannenberg that might be called indispensible and unmissable. For Pannenberg one can only talk about God when one at the same time talks about Jesus. Theology and Christology, the doctrine of God and the doctrine of Jesus as the Christ, are therefore insuperably bound together. This book develops the connection systematically, through a careful mode of biblical, dogmatic and philosophical exposition.
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- Intro
- Title page
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Abbreviations
- Foreword to the First German Edition
- Foreword to the Second German Edition
- Preface to the English Edition
- Preface to the new SCM Classics Edition
- Introduction
- 1. THE STARTING POINT
- I. The Task of Christology
- Excursus: Justification of the Title 'Christology'
- II. The Method of Christology
- 2. CHRISTOLOGY AND SOTERIOLOGY
- I. Jesus as God and Saviour
- II. Soteriological Motifs in the History of Christology
- 1. Deification Through Incarnation
- 2. Deification Through Assimilation to God
- 3. The Christology of Vicarious Satisfaction
- 4. The Christology of God's Grace Alone
- 5. The Prototype of the Religious Man
- 6. The Ideal of Moral Perfection
- 7. The Christology of Pure Personality
- III. The Problem of the Soteriological Approach to Christology
- Part One: THE KNOWLEDGE OF JESUS' DIVINITY
- 3. JESUS' RESURRECTION AS THE GROUND OF HIS UNITY WITH GOD
- I. The Proleptic Element in Jesus' Claim to Authority
- II. The Significance of Jesus' Resurrection
- III. The Conception of Resurrection of the Dead
- IV. Jesus' Resurrection as a Historical Problem
- V. The Delay of the Parousia and the Meaning of Jesus' Resurrection
- Appendix: The Evaluation of Jesus' Resurrection in Modern Dogmatics
- 4. JESUS' DIVINITY IN RELATION TO THE FATHER'S DIVINITY
- I. The Mode of God's Presence in Jesus
- 1. The Presence of the Spirit
- 2. Substantial Presence
- 3. Mediator Christology
- 4. Presence as Appearance
- 5. Revelational Presence
- II. Jesus' Essential Unity with God
- 1. Revelatory Identity and Adoption
- 2. Virgin Birth and Incarnation
- 3. The Truth of the Concept of Incarnation
- III. The Origin of the Doctrine of the Trinity and the Problem of the Logos Christology
- 1. The Distinction Between Father and Son
- 2. The Classical Logos Christology
- 3. Advantages and Dangers of the Logos Theory
- 4. Renewal of the Logos Christology?
- 5. The Problem of the Mediation of Creation by Jesus Christ
- 6. The Holy Spirit
- 7. The Unity in the Trinity
- Excursus: The Structure of Statements About Jesus' Divinity
- Part Two: JESUS THE MAN BEFORE GOD
- 5. THE TRUE MAN
- I. The Revelation of Man's Destiny in Jesus' Deeds and Destiny
- II. Jesus as Representative of Men Before God
- III. The Office and Person of Jesus
- 6. THE OFFICE OF JESUS
- I. Critique of the Doctrine of the Three Offices
- II. The Call to the Kingdom of God
- 1. Jesus' Imminent Expectation
- 2. The Presence of Salvation
- 3. The Fatherhood of God
- 4. The Life in Love
- III. Universal and Historically Conditioned Elements in Jesus' Activity
- 7. THE MEANING OF JESUS' VICARIOUS DEATH ON THE CROSS
- I. The Oldest Interpretations of Jesus' Death
- II. Jesus' Self-Understanding and the Disaster of His Condemnation
- III. Jesus' Death as Substitution
- 1. Substitution for Israel
- 2. Substitution for Humanity
- 3. The Concept of Inclusive Substitution
- 4. The Universal Horizon of the Conception of Substitution
- Excursus: Christ's Descent Into Hell
- IV. Theories of the Saving Significance of Jesus' Death
- 1. Jesus' Death as Ransom for Sin and the Devil
- 2. The Satisfaction Theory
- 3. The Penal Suffering of Christ
- Part Three: THE DIVINITY OF CHRIST AND THE MAN JESUS
- 8. THE IMPASSE OF THE DOCTRINE OF THE TWO NATURES
- I. Unification Christology and Disjunction Christology
- 1. The Council of Chalcedon and the Contrast Between Alexandrian and Antiochene Christology
- 2. Monothelitism and Dyothelitism
- 3. Incarnation Theories of Medieval Scholasticism
- II. Mutual Interpenetration of the Natures as a Way Towards Understanding the Unity of Christ
- III. The Self-Emptying of the Logos as Mediation of the Distinction Between the Natures
- 9. JESUS' PERSONAL UNITY WITH GOD
- I. Jesus' Self-Consciousness and the Divine-Human Unity
- II. The Dialectic of Jesus' Sonship
- 1. The Indirectness of Jesus' Identity with the Son of God
- 2. The Enhypostasis of Jesus in the Logos
- 3. Jesus' Sonship as the Fulfillment of Human Personality
- III. Jesus' Freedom
- IV. Jesus' Sinlessness
- 10. THE LORDSHIP OF JESUS CHRIST
- I. Jesus' Kingship
- II. The Summation of Humanity in Jesus Christ
- III. The Creation of the World Through Jesus Christ
- Postscript to the Fifth German Edition
- Indexes: Scripture Index
- Subject Index
- Name Index
