An Augustinian Christology
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- Publisher:
- Cambridge University Press
- Publication date:
- 02 November 2023
- 16 November 2023
- ISBN:
- 9781009344449
- 9781009344425
- Dimensions:
- (216 x 140 mm)
- Weight & Pages:
- 0.75kg, 474 Pages
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- Series:
- Current Issues in Theology
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Book description
In An Augustinian Christology: Completing Christ, Joseph Walker-Lenow advances a striking christological thesis: Jesus Christ, true God and true human, only becomes who he is through his relations to the world around him. To understand both his person and work, it is necessary to see him as receptive to and determined by the people he meets, the environments he inhabits, even those people who come to worship him. Christ and the redemption he brings cannot be understood apart from these factors, for it is through the existence and agency of the created world that he redeems. To pursue these claims, Walker-Lenow draws on an underappreciated resource in the history of Christian thought: St. Augustine of Hippo's theology of the 'whole Christ.' Presenting Augustine's christology across the full range of his writings, Joseph Walker-Lenow recovers a christocentric Augustine with the potential to transform our understandings of the Church and its mission in our world.
Reviews
‘As a work of constructive theology, [this work] will appeal to those interested in probing the often mystifying intersection of Christology, ecclesiology, and the doctrine of creation, even if, owing to the potential bedimming of the distinctions and systematic relations between various Augustinian dogmata, the conclusions reached by the author seem to cut against the grain of Augustine’s thought, and to unsettle any easy identification of this Christological project as ‘Augustinian.’’
Jerome Falk Source: Reading Religion
‘Walker-Lenow has done us a great service in providing this highly stimulating and ambitiously constructive proposal. … it is rich and thought-provoking. Students and scholars alike will benefit from reading it carefully and contending with its argument seriously.’
Michael Glowasky Source: Scottish Journal of Theology
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