Jesus' particular Jewish existence (his human nature) and his universal transcendence (his divine nature) are brought together here in the construction of a Christology that proposes the equality, unity, and full participation of both natures. Using frameworks from multicultural theory, it identifies the processes by which Christologies have historically negotiated difference in the Incarnation, and explains why uniting the two natures of Christ consistently and problematically supplants Jesus' Jewishness. This conceptual framework unites the two natures without sublimating their differences, by proposing a contextual universalism.
'Overlapping membership' offers the means whereby the particular, Jewish, human nature and the universal, divine nature of Jesus Christ engage in an ongoing dialogue and formation in the one person of the Incarnation. This work offers a new way of understanding the two natures of Christ that brings together historical understandings with contemporary contextual Christologies, enabling us to find a way to understand Christ as both truly human and fully divine.
Inhaltsverzeichnis
Table of Contents
Part I - Dual Citizenship
Chapter 1 - Introduction - Nonsupersessionist Theology and the Challenge of Incarnational Theology
Chapter 2 - "But You Can't be Both!" - Multiple Loyalties in Theories of Multiculturalism
Part II - Constituent Parts
Chapter 3 - Contextual: Jesus as Human Citizen
Chapter 4 - Universal: Jesus as Divine Expatriate
Part III - Establishing Relationships
Chapter 5 - Living in the Diaspora - Overlapping Memberships in the One Person
Chapter 6 - You Never Leave Your Homeland Behind - Contextual Universalism in the Two Natures
Part IV - The Transparticular Person - Passing Through Chalcedon
Chapter 7 - At Home - The Contextual Universals of the Jewish Jesus
Chapter 8 - Living Abroad - The Overlapping Memberships of the Living Christ
Acknowledgements
Notes
Bibliography
