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The Future of Christology
Jesus Christ for a Global Age
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2019
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The Future of Christology addresses the questions that Christology currently faces and/or will face in the future in 12 topics. The book consists of two parts. In the first part Kim deals with five topics related to traditional Christology, while in the second part he wrestles with seven topics related to issues of Christology.
The twenty-first century is a challenging time for Christianity. Many in our age are asking what Jesus Christ means in various dimensions of history, culture, nature, and even beyond the Earth. Changes in values, worldviews, and views of the universe are forming a new zeitgeist. Dong-Kun Kim argues that ways of understanding Christ should change accordingly, for a Christology that fails to communicate meaningfully with the times is void of vitality. Postmodernism, dehistoricization and life post-ideology, multiculturalism, multiple religions, and, above all, the rapid development of the natural sciences pose a serious challenge to traditional Christology.
Who is Christ in the age of an infinite cosmos? How do daily human life, social devotion, and praxis relate to salvation? How can we discuss salvation history in an era post-history? Where does Christ stand in the public sphere? Can the Chalcedonian definition of the two natures of Christ, “true God and true human being,” encompass nature and the cosmos; would a third nature of Christ be necessary? Will the cyborg, which may appear in the near future, be the object of Christ’s salvation? If scientific determinism becomes popular in the future, will the basis of faith in Christ lose ground? If intelligent life exists in the universe, what does Christ mean to such life? This book provides innovative answers to these questions in an academic context.
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2019
ISBN-Print
978-1-9787-0270-7
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978-1-9787-0271-4
Publisher
Lexington, Lanham
Language
English
Pages
285
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Preface No access
General Introduction No access Pages 1 - 2
Chapter One: Methodology of Christology No access
Chapter Two: Incarnational Theology and Prospects No access
Chapter Three: Harmony of the Cosmic Christ and the Historical Jesus No access
Chapter Four: Issues in Soteriology No access
Chapter Five: Salvation: Is It God’s Grace or Human Cooperation? No access
Chapter Six: Open Discipleship of Christ No access
Chapter Seven: Christ in the Age of Plurality No access
Chapter Eight: Christ in History and Dehistoricization No access
Chapter Nine: Christ in the Public Sphere No access
Chapter Ten: The Decline of Comprehensive Christology and the Emergence of Private Christology No access
Chapter Eleven: Scientific Determinism and Christ No access
Chapter Twelve: Christ of the Earthlings? No access
