Contents: Part One: The mystery of resurrection -- The reality of the resurrection -- A risen crucified Christ -- Resurrection and God's new order -- The resurrection tradition -- Part Two: The passion of Jesus Christ -- The patterns of sin -- The crossed man -- The mystery of God -- The gospel traditions -- Epilogue: The promise of salvation.
Contents: Meeting Jesus again -- What manner of man? The pre-EasterJesus -- Jesus, compassion, and politics -- Jesus and wisdom: teacher of alternate wisdom -- Jesus, the wisdom of God: Sophia become flesh -- Images of Jesus and images of the Christian life. Abstract: Of the many recent books on the historical Jesus, none has explored what the latest biblical scholarship means for person…
Contents: The possibility of a Messianic ethic -- The kingdom coming -- The implications of the jubilee -- God will fight for us -- The possibility of nonviolent resistance -- Trial balance -- The disciple of Christ and the way of Jesus -- Christ and power -- Revolutionary subordination -- Let every soul be subject : Romans 13 and the authority of the state -- Justification by grace through fai…
Contents: Why this book has been written. The story of a crippled man ; The situation in outline ; A challenge ; A note on exegesis and theology -- Questions of method, hermeneutics and criteria. Jesus of Nazareth, norm and criterion of any interpretation of Jesus ; Criteria for a critical identification of the historical Jesus ; Justification for the structure of this book, as according with t…
Contents: The good, the true, the beautiful -- The rabbi -- The turning point of history -- The light of the gentiles -- The king of kings -- The cosmic Christ -- The son of man -- The true image -- Christ crucified -- The monk who rules the world -- The bridegroom of the soul -- The divine and human model -- The universal man -- The mirror of the eternal -- The prince of peace -- The teacher o…