The Suffering and Victorious Christ: Toward a More Compassionate Christology

The Suffering and Victorious Christ: Toward a More Compassionate Christology

The Suffering and Victorious Christ: Toward a More Compassionate Christology

The Suffering and Victorious Christ: Toward a More Compassionate Christology

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Overview

American theologians tend to focus on the great hope Christians have through Christ's resurrection, emphasizing Christ's victory while minimizing or ignoring his suffering. Through their engagements with Japanese Christians and African American Christians on the topic of Christology, Richard Mouw and Douglas Sweeney have come to recognize and underscore that Christ offers hope not only through his resurrection but also through his incarnation. The authors articulate a more compassionate and orthodox Christology that answers the experience of the global church, offering a corrective to what passes for American Christology today. The book includes an afterword by Willie James Jennings of Duke Divinity School.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780801048449
Publisher: Baker Publishing Group
Publication date: 10/15/2013
Pages: 128
Product dimensions: 5.40(w) x 8.40(h) x 0.40(d)

About the Author

Richard J. Mouw (PhD, University of Chicago) is professor of faith and public life at Fuller Theological Seminary. He served as the president of Fuller Seminary for twenty years and previously taught at Calvin College and the Free University in Amsterdam. He is the author of numerous books, including Uncommon Decency: Christian Civility in an Uncivil World and Talking with Mormons: An Invitation to Evangelicals. Douglas A. Sweeney (PhD, Vanderbilt University) is professor of church history and the history of Christian thought and chair of the department at Trinity Evangelical Divinity School, where he also directs the Jonathan Edwards Center and the Carl F. H. Henry Center for Theological Understanding. He is the author of numerous books, including Jonathan Edwards and the Ministry of the Word and The American Evangelical Story.

Table of Contents

Contents
Introduction
1. John Williamson Nevin and the Incarnation of God
2. Franz Pieper and the Suffering of God
3. A Brief Interlude on Incarnational Presence
4. Reformed Theology and the Suffering of Christ
5. Christus Dolor among the Slaves and Their Descendants
6. The Challenge of Application: Christus Dolor in the American South
Conclusion
"Christus Victor and Christus Dolor: An Afterword" by Willie James Jennings
Resources for Christological Reflection from Our Japanese and African American Interlocutors
Index

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