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1. Introduction & Surveys
2. History of Christology: From the New Testament to Chalcedon
3. History of
Christology: After Chalcedon
4. History of
Christology: Classic Texts
5. Contemporary Christologies:
A Selection
Gerald
O’Collins, Christology: A Biblical, Historical, and Systematic Study
of Christ (New York: Oxford University Press, 1995) paperback, $45.
NOTE: A 2nd edition is forthcoming in August 2009. The history of
the development of christology is many-sided and complex. No single
volume work really does justice to the range of issues and the course of
the debate, but this volume does a solid job of introducing newcomers to
the issues and questions. Use it as a starting point.
Stephen Davis, Daniel Kendall, and Gerald
O’Collins, eds.,The Incarnation: An Interdisciplinary Symposium on
the Incarnation of the Son of God (New York: Oxford University
Press, 2002) paperback, $55. An excellent collection of essays
from leading scholars on a
range of issues and approaches: biblical, historical, and systematic.
See also the other volumes in this series:
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The Redemption: An Interdisciplinary
Symposium on the Incarnation of the Son of God
(New
York: Oxford University Press, 2006) paperback, $50.
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The Resurrection: An Interdisciplinary
Symposium on the Incarnation of the Son of God
(New
York: Oxford University Press, 1998) paperback, $70.
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The Trinity: An Interdisciplinary
Symposium on the Incarnation of the Son of God
(New
York: Oxford University Press, 2002) paperback, $45.
John Cavadini & Laura Holt, ed., Who Do
You Say That I Am?: Confessing the Mystery of Christ (Notre Dame:
University of Notre Dame Press, 2004) paperback, $30.
David Ford & Mike Higton, ed., Jesus,
Oxford Readers (New York: Oxford University Press, 2002) paperback,
$23. A wonderful anthology of texts through the ages.
Marcus Brockmuhl, ed., The Cambridge
Companion to Jesus (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2002)
paperback, $22.
Walter Kasper, Jesus the Christ,
trans. V. Green (New York: Paulist Press, 1976) paperback. One of
the better balanced and careful of modern studies—often used a textbook for
graduate courses.
Jaroslav Pelikan, Jesus Through the
Centuries: His Place in the History of Culture (New Haven: Yale
University Press, 1985; reprint: 1999) paperback.
Brian E.
Daley, “Christ and Christologies,” pp. 886-905, in Susan Ashbrook Harvey
& David G. Hunter, eds., The Oxford Handbook of Early Christian
Studies (New York: Oxford University Press, 2008) hardcover, $120.
NEW. A fine brief overview of the key issues and figures.
The place to start.
R.P.C. Hanson, The Search for the
Christian Doctrine of God: the Arian Controversy, 318-381 AD
(Edinburgh: T & T Clark, 1988) hardback. A massive 900-page study of
Nicaea, Athanasius, and the Cappadocians by one of the deans of
patristic studies. This is the finest and the most exhaustive treatment
of the theology of the trinitarian controversy.
Khaled Anatolios, Athanasius: The
Coherence of His Thought (New York: Routledge, 1998) NEW in
paperback, $30.
Lewis Ayres, Nicaea and Its Legacy: An
Approach to Fouth-Century Trinitarian Thought (New York: Oxford
University Press, 2004) paperback, $45.
Michel René Barnes & Daniel H. Williams,
ed., Arianism After Arius: Essays on the Development of the
Fourth-Century Trinitarian Conflicts (Edinburgh: T & T Clark,
1993).
Paul B.
Clayton, The Christology of Theodoret of Cyrus:
Antiochene Christology from the Council of Ephesus (431) to the Council
of Chalcedon (451), Oxford Early Christian Studies (New York: Oxford
University Press, 2007) hardcover, $145.
Hubertus Drobner, Person-Exegese und
Christologie bei Augustinus: zur Herkunft der Formel Una Persona
(Leiden: Brill, 1986).
Bart D. Ehrman, The Orthodox Corruption
of Scripture: The Effect of Early Christological Controversies on the
Text of the New Testament (New York: Oxford University Press, 1993)
paperback, $16.
Bernard Green, Soteriology of Leo the
Great, Oxford Theological Monographs (Oxford: Oxford University
Press, 2008) hardcover, $130. NEW.
Aloys Grillmeier, Christ in the
Christian Tradition, Vol. 1: From the Apostolic Age to Chalcedon,
revised ed., trans. John Bowden (Louisville: Westminster John Knox,
1975), hardcover, $50. A classic.
Daniel A. Keating,
The Appropriation of Divine Life in Cyril of Alexandria, Oxford
Theological Monographs (New York: Oxford University Press, 2004)
hardcover, $99.
J.N.D. Kelly, Early Christian Doctrines,
5th edition (New York: Continuum, 2000) paperback, $29. A
classic.
Joseph T. Lienhard, Contra Marcellum:
Marcellus of Ancyra and Fourth Century Theology (Washington:
Catholic University Press, 1999) hardcover, $65.
Joseph T. Lienhard, “Ousia and
Hypostasis: The Cappadocian Settlement and the Theology of ‘One
Hypostasis,” pp. 99-121, in Stephen T. Davis et al., The Trinity:
An Interdisciplinary Symposium on the Trinity (New York: Oxford
University Press, 1999).
Joseph T. Lienhard, “The ‘Arian’
Controversy: Some Categories Reconsidered,” Theological Studies
48 (1987) 415-436.
Rebecca Lyman, Christology and
Cosmology: Models of Divine Activity in Origen, Eusebius, and Athanasius,
Oxford Theological Monographs (New York: Oxford University Press, 1993),
hardcover $40.
John A. McGuckin, St. Cyril of
Alexandria: the Christological Controversy: Its History, Theology and
Texts (NY: St. Vladimir’s Seminary Press, 2004) paperback, $23. A superb, thorough analysis of the clash between Cyril and Nestorius and
the Council of Ephesus.
Frederick G. McLeod, The Image of God
in the Antichene Tradition (Washington, DC: Catholic University of
America Press, 1999) hardcover.
Frederick G. McLeod,
The Roles of Christ’s Humanity in Salvation: Insights from Theodore
of Mopsuestia (Washington, DC: Catholic University of America Press,
2005) hardcover, $70.
Steven A. McKinion, Words, Imagery, and
the Mystery of Christ: A Reconstruction of Cyril of Alexandria’s
Christology (Leiden: Brill, 2000) hardcover, $97.
John J. O’Keefe,
“Impassible Suffering? Divine Passion and Fifth-Century Christology,”
Theological Studies 58 (1997) 39-60.
Basil Studer, Trinity and Incarnation:
The Faith of the Early Church, ed. Andrew Louth (Collegeville:
Liturgical Press, 1994), paperback, $20.
Thomas G. Weinandy & Daniel Keating, eds.,
The Theology of St. Cyril of Alexandria: A Critical Appreciation
(Edinburgh: T&T Clark, 2003) hardcover, $60.
Susan Wessel, Cyril of Alexandria and
the Nestorian Controversy: The Making of a Saint and of a Heretic,
Oxford Early Christian Studies (New York: Oxford University Press, 2004)
hardcover, $180.
Peter Widdicombe, The Fatherhood of God
from Origen to Athanasius, Oxford Theological Monographs, rev. ed.
(New York: Oxford University Press, 2000) paperback, $25.
Rowan Williams, Arius: Heresy and
Tradition, rev. ed. (Grand Rapids, MI: Wm. B. Eerdmans, 2002)
paperback, $24.
Frances Young, From Nicaea to Chalcedon
(London: SCM, 1983) paperback, $14.
John Meyendorff, Christ in Eastern
Christian Thought (Crestwood, NY: St. Vladimir’s Seminary Press,
1987) paperback. The classic treatment of Christology in the
Orthodox East (something most Latin Christians know almost nothing
about). Greeks wrestled with issues on the divinity and humanity of
Christ with great sensitivity—something we Western Christians could
learn much from.
David Bathrellos, The Byzantine Christ:
Person, Nature, and Will in the Christology of St. Maximus the Confessor,
Oxford Early Christian Studies (New York: Oxford University Press, 2004)
hardcover, $120.
John C. Cavadini, The Last Christology
of the West: Adoptionism in Spain and Gaul, 785-820 (Philadelphia:
University of Pennsylvania Press, 1993).
R.C. Chestnut, Three Monophysite
Christologies: Severus of Antioch, Philoxenus of Mabbug, and Jacob of
Sarug (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1976).
Richard Cross, The Metaphysics of the
Incarnation: Thomas Aquinas to Duns Scotus (New York: Oxford
University Press, 2001) hardcover, $90.
Brian E. Daley, “Nature and the ‘Mode of
Union’: Late Patristic Models for the Personal Unity of Christ,” pp.
164-196, in Stephen T. Davis, Daniel Kendall & Gerald O’Collins, The
Incarnation: An Interdisciplinary Symposium (New York: Oxford
University Press, 2002) hardcover.
Stephen Edmondson, Calvin’s Christology
(Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004) paperback, $26.
Gabriele Finaldi, The Image of Christ
(London: National Gallery Co. Ltd. / New Haven: Yale University Press,
2000) paperback, $25.
W.H.C. Frend, The Rise of the
Monophysite Movement (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1972).
Patrick T.R. Gray, The Defense of
Chalcedon in the East (451-553) (Leiden: Brill, 1979).
Aloys Grillmeier, Christ in the
Christian Tradition, vol. 2: From the Council of Chalcedon (451)
to Gregory the Great (590-604), trans. John Bowden (Louisville: Westminster John Knox,
1986-1996):
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Vol. 2/pt. 1: Reception and
Contradiction: The Development of the Discussion about Chalcedon
from 451 to the Beginning of the Reign of Justinian (1986)
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Vol. 2/pt. 2: The Church of
Constantinople in the Sixth Century (1995)
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Vol. 2/3: The Church of Antioch
and Syria (not yet available)
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Vol. 2/4: The Church of
Alexandria with Nubia and Ethiopia after 451 (1996)
Bernard McGinn, “The God Beyond God:
Theology and Mysticism in the Thought of Meister Eckhart,” Journal of
Religion 61 (1981): 1-19.
Caroline Walker Bynum, Jesus as Mother:
Studies in the Spirituality of the High Middle Ages (Berkeley:
University of California Press, 1982) paperback, $16. Essays on
Cistercian spirituality.
Brian Davies, The Thought of Thomas
Aquinas (New York: Clarendon Press / Oxford University Press, 1992)
paperback, $20.
Oliver Davies & Denys Turner, eds.,
Silence and the Word: Negative Theology and Incarnation (New York:
Cambridge University Press, 2002) hardcover, $60.
Stephen J. Davis,
Coptic Christology in Practice: Incarnation and Divine Participation in
Late Antique and Medieval Egypt, Oxford Early Christian Studies (New
York: Oxford University Press, 2008) hardcover, $130. NEW.
Neil MacGregor & Erika Langmuir, Seeing
Salvation: Images of Christ in Art (New Haven: Yale University
Press, 2000) hardcover, $35.
Kevin Madigan, The Passion of Christ in
High Medieval Thought: An Essay on Christological Development,
Oxford Studies in Historical Theology (New York: Oxford University
Press, 2007) hardcover, $65.
R.W. Southern, St. Anselm: A Portrait
in a Landscape (New York: Cambridge University Press, 1990)
paperback, $20. This has an excellent chapter on the influential Cur
Deus Homo.
Torstein Tollefsen, The Christocentric
Cosmology of St. Maximus the Confessor, Oxford Early Christian
Studies (New York: Oxford University Press, 2008) hardcover, $100. NEW.
Melchisedec Törönen, Union and
Distinction in the Thought of St. Maximus the Confessor, Oxford
Early Christian Studies (New York; Oxford University Press, 2007)
hardcover, $74.
Barbara R. Walters, Vincent Corrigan &
Peter T. Ricketts, The Feast of Corpus Christi (University Park,
PA: Pennsylvania State University Press, 2007) hardcover, $70.
Michael Zell, Reframing Rembrandt: Jews
and the Christian Image in Seventeenth-Century Amsterdam (Berkeley:
University of California Press, 2002) hardcover, $55.
Paul M. Blowers & Robert L. Wilken,
ed. and trans., St.
Maximus the Confessor: On the Cosmic Mystery of Jesus Christ,
Popular Patristics Series (Crestwood, NY: St. Vladimir’s Seminary Press,
2003) paperback, $14.
G.R. Drive and L. Hodgson, Nestorius:
The Bazaar of Heracleides [Liber Heraclidis] (1925; reprint:
Eugene, OR: Wipf & Stock, 2002) paperback.
Edward Hardy, trans., Christology of
the Later Fathers, Library of Christian Classics (1954; reprint:
Westminster John Knox, 1977) paperback, $40.
Andrew Louth, Maximus the Confessor,
Early Church Fathers Series (London: Routledge, 1996) paperback $20.
John A. McGuckin, St. Cyril of
Alexandria: the Christological Controversy: Its History, Theology and
Texts (NY: St. Vladimir’s Seminary Press, 2004) paperback, $23.
In its appendix, there is a valuable collection of the key documents
from Cyril, Nestorius, and Ephesus.
Frederick
McLeod, ed., Theodore of Mopsuestia, Early Church Fathers series
(New York: Routledge, 2008) paperback, $35. NEW.
Frederick W. Norris, Faith Gives
Fullness to Reasoning: The Five Theological Orations of Gregory of
Nazianzus, trans. Lionel Wickham, Supplements to Vigiliae
Christianae Volume XIII (Leiden: E.J. Brill, 1991) hardcover, $130.
Superb translation & commentary.
Richard A. Norris, trans. The
Christological Controversy, Sources of Early Christian Thought
(Philadelphia: Fortress Press, 1980).
Richard Price and Michael Gaddis, trans.,
The Acts of the Council of Chalcedon, (3 volumes in packaged as a
box set), Translated Texts for Historians series (Liverpool: Liverpool
University Press, 2007) paperback, $50.
Norman Russell, Cyril of Alexandria,
Early Church Fathers Series (New York: Routledge, 2000) paperback, $26.
Lionel Wickham, trans., On God and
Christ: The Five Theological Orations and Two Letters of Cledonius
(Crestwood, NY: St. Vladimir’s Seminary Press, 2002) paperback, $13.
Karl Rahner, Foundations of Christian
Faith: An Introduction to the Idea of Christianity, trans. William
V. Dych (New York: Crossroad, 1985). Rahner is arguably the greatest
Catholic theologian of the twentieth century. This is a mini-summa of
his theology and includes over 150 pages on his Christology.
Jon Sobrino, Jesus the Liberator: a
Historical-Theological Reading of Jesus of Nazareth (Maryknoll, NY:
Orbis Books, 1993) paperback, $28; and Christ the Liberator: A View
from the Victims, trans. Paul Burns (Maryknoll, NY: Orbis Books,
2001) paperback, $28. Sobrino is a Spanish Jesuit who has spent his
career working among the poor of El Salvador and was one of the
survivors of the murder of the Jesuits at the UCA. These are two
excellent examples of Latin American perspectives on Christology. See
also his older (and now) classic study: Christology at the
Crossroads: A Latin American Approach (Maryknoll, NY: Orbis Books,
1978).
Marilyn McCord Adams, Christ and
Horrors: The Coherence of Christology (Cambridge: Cambridge
University Press, 2006).
Hans Urs von Balthasar, Mysterium
Paschale: The Mystery of Easter, trans. Aidan Nichols (Grand Rapids,
MI: Eerdmanns, 1993).
Robert Barron, The Priority of Christ:
Toward a Postliberal Catholicism (Grand Rapids, MI: Brazos, 2007)
paperback, $30. NEW.
Franz Josef van Beeck, Christ
Proclaimed: Christology as Rhetoric, Theological Inquiries (New
York: Paulist Press, 1979).
Oliver Crisp, Divinity and Humanity:
The Incarnation Reconsidered , Current Issues in Theology
(Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2007) paperback, $28.
Jacques Dupuis, Jesus Christ at the
Encounter of World Religions, trans. R.B. Barr (Maryknoll, NY: Orbis
Books, 1991). Dupuis’ work—probably to his surprise—earned him a sharp
clash with Vatican authorities.
C. Stephen Evans, Exploring Kenotic
Christology: The Self-Emptying of God (New York: Oxford University
Press, 2006).
Roger Haight, Jesus: Symbol of God
(Maryknoll, NY: Orbis Books, 1999) paperback, $24. Very
controversial—seen as minimizing basic Christian claims about Jesus.
Elizabeth A. Johnson, She Who Is: The
Mystery of God in Feminist Discourse (New York: Crossroad, 1992). A
moderate feminist perspective.
Elizabeth A. Johnson, Consider Jesus:
Waves of Renewal in Christology (New York: Crossroad, 1990)
paperback. A survey of recent approaches.
Mark Allen McIntosh, Christology from
Within: Spirituality and Incarnation in Hans Urs von Balthasar
(Notre Dame: University of Notre Dame Press, 1996).
Jurgen Moltmann, The Crucified God: The
Cross of Christ as the Foundation and Criticism of Christian Theology,
trans. R.A. Wilson and John Bowden (Minneapolis: Fortress Press,
1993) paperback.
Jurgen Moltmann, The Way of Jesus
Christ: Christology in Messianic Dimensions, trans. Margaret Kohl
(Minneapolis: Fortress Press, 1993).
Gerald O’Collins, Jesus Our Redeemer: A
Christian Approach to Salvation (New York: Oxford University Press,
2007) paperback, $30.
Wolfgang Pannenberg, Jesus God and Man,
trans. L.L. Wilkins & D.A. Priebe (Philadelphia: Fortress Press, 1977).
Edward Schillebeeckx, Jesus: An
Experiment in Christology (New York: Crossroad, 1979).
Edward Schillebeeckx, Christ: The
Experience of Jesus as Lord (New York: Crossroad, 1980) paperback.
Elizabeth Schüssler Fiorenza,
Jesus—Miriam’s Child, Sophia’s Prophet: Critical Issues in Feminist
Christology (New York: Continuum, 1994).
Elizabeth Schüssler Fiorenza, In Memory
of Her: A Feminist Theological Reconstruction of Christian Origins
(New York: Crossroad, 1983).
Juan Luis Segundo, Jesus of Nazareth,
Yesterday & Today, 5 vol. (Maryknoll, NY: Orbis Books, 1984-1988).
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Vol. 1: Faith and Ideologies
(1984)
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Vol. 2: The Historical Jesus of the
Synoptics (1984).
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Vol. 3: The Humanist Christology of
Paul (1986).
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Vol. 4: Christ of the Ignatian
Exercises (1987).
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Vol. 5: An Evolutionary Approach to
Jesus of Nazareth (1988).
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