Sign in here to access free tools such as favourites and alerts, or to access personal subscriptions ... Book Review: Christology from Below. While these phrases are defined in different ways, from below is best understood as the attempt to do Christology from the vantage point of historical-critical research, independent of a commitment to the full authority of Scripture. "Christology from below", on the other hand, begins, as Matthew's Gospel begins, with Jesus as the baby in Bethlehem and the man from Nazareth, and then seeks to illuminate how this man was truly God. Throughout the ages, the Church has always confessed that Jesus is God the Son incarnate and thus the exclusive Lord and Savior. Interpretation 1969 23: 2, 228-232 As such, Christology “from below,” a method that emphasizes the existential and experiential encounter with Jesus while assuming the ontological reality of Christ, seems to be their favored christological … This became a real person at the conception of Jesus (John 1:14).
Christology - Christology - Early history: The four Gospels portray Jesus as having had a sense of mission much like the prophets in the Hebrew Bible, and they declare that Jesus saw himself as the decisive revelation of God to his people. ‘In sum, by combining Christology from above with Christology from below, Dupuis has affirmed the divinity of Jesus Christ and at the same time affirmed the humanity of Jesus Christ.’ ‘At the shrine itself, and in the devotions surrounding the mandatory baths, the principle that Mariology is Christology could not have been more explicit.’
In Christianity, Christology (from Greek Χριστός Khristós and -λογία, -logia), translated literally from Greek as "the study of Christ", is a branch of theology that concerns Jesus. Academia.edu is a platform for academics to share research papers. Gerald G. O'Collins, S.J.
Different denominations have different opinions on questions like whether Jesus was human, divine, or both, and as a messiah what his role would be in the freeing of the Jewish people from foreign rulers or in the prophesied Kingdom of God, and in the salvation from what would otherwise be the consequences of sin. In the 20th century, the study of Christology was center stage. Erickson discusses the debate over the last century in relation to the "quest of the historical Jesus," "Christology from below," "Christology from above," and finally, his own "alternative approach."
Let's do Augustinian: Faith providing the starting point from which reason may function. Christology from above is fideistic. All attempts to unite a Christology "from below" with a Christology "from above" are on the right track. The passage of Christian faith into the Hellenistic world is filled with instructive lessons. Though he acknowledges the legitimacy of both "Logos" and "Spirit" Christologies, Haight considers the latter more in harmony with contemporary sensibilities.
This approach is critical of Scripture and assumes that the Jesus of history is not the Jesus of the Bible.
= Christology begins at kerygma, and the content of kerygma inform the interpretation of data supplied by historical inquiry. That revelation consisted of his teachings, both about himself and about his role. Dissertation, University of Cape Town. Jesus himself did not preexist. Forrest, MR (1987) Christology from below: an examination of the black christology of Takatso Mofokeng in the context of the development of black theology in South Africa and in critical relation to the christological ethic of Dietrich Bonhoeffer. Much recent Christology claims to work ‘from below up’, that is to say, to begin with the humanity of Jesus and go on to show that the evidence leads to a recognition also of his divinity. A christology from below, by dealing with the genesis of christology, will by definition analyze the biblical witness on these questions. My Profile. Neither one is incorrect, and they are not in competition with one another. Only a Christology from above provides the warrant for the Bible’s and the Church’s theological confession of Christ.