On Christology

karl rahner’s transcendental christology

each part of karl rahner’s theology is in deep relation to his understanding of human situation. he believes that god has communicated himself with man. this self-offering of god to human needs a response from man. such an existential part has certain effects on the concrete human life and seeks its true and ultimate realization. this attitude to human leads to transcendental christology. chris...

Continuity and Discontinuity between ”Jesus” and ”Christ”. The possibilities of an Implicit Christology

The article discusses the central issue of the relationship between the “Historical Jesus” and the “Christ of Faith” and especially the question whether there is a continuity between the Jesus of history and later theological views, in Paul, the Gospels, and the creed of the church. Initially, the author traces the origins of the question in enlightenment thought (Reimarus, Lessing) and explain...

Feminine Images of Jesus: Later Medieval Christology and the Devaluation of the Feminine

The Virgin Birth An Inquiry into the Biblical Doctrine -------------------------------------------------------------

Since the rise of rationalistic theology in the 19th Century, the approach to discussing the person of Yeshua has seen a marked change. While the Christian Church had for centuries begun her inquiry into Christology “from above,” humanistic rationalism required that such inquiry begin “from below.” In other words, while the Church had always begun with the deity of Yeshua and proceeded from the...

christ through history (an inquiry into pannenberg’s christology and its critics)

one of the most controversial issues in the history of church has been the debate about the ‘true nature’ of christ and his function in christianity. while the position of orthodox christianity regarding christology revolves mainly around the divine-human nature (known as the two natures) of christ, modern christian theology with its scientific orientation approaches the traditional doctrines o...