Ecce Homo: On the Divine Unity of Christ (Interventions)
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| Rating | : | 4.74 (721 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 080287231X |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 280 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2015-01-23 |
| Language | : | English |
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Eden Jersak said Best work of Christology for this generation - Review by Brad Jersak. Itis difficult to avoid grandiosity in praise of Aaron Riches' Ecce Homo--but I take heart in the fact that theological heavyweights such as Rowan Williams, John Behr and John Milbank noted the same brilliance I perceived throughout its pages. Thus, I will not hesitate to say that Ecce Homo ought to stand as the decisive Christology for our generation. Why venture this heady claim?Dr. Riches has seen to the heart of the matter in the Christological formations and controversies of the Patristic period. The author expertly guides us through the historical and theological landscape(s) of the early Church's ques. PastorDrJW said The One Lord Jesus Christ. Riches unpacks the intellectual history of the central teaching of the faith once delivered to the saints: “the one Lord Jesus Christ.” He shows how Christological doctrine developed in order to sustain the core apostolic and catholic confession of faith for the church’s teaching, witness, and devotion. His treatments of Chalcedon and Thomas Aquinas brilliantly overcome the inadequacy of earlier accounts. The most subtle distinctions within the church's Christological doctrine resonate with startling metaphysical, theological, ecumenical, historical, and devotional implications.In an age wh
He sets the apostolic proclamation in its historical, theological, philosophical, and mystical context, showing that, as the starting point of “orthodoxy,” it forecloses every theological attempt to divide or reduce the “one Lord Jesus Christ.”. Interacting with theologians throughout the ages, Riches narrates the development of the church’s doctrine of Christ as an increasingly profound realization that the depth of the difference between the human being and God is realized, in fact, only in the perfect union of divinity and humanity in the one Christ
With his learned reinterpretation of the tradition, Riches is creating a new paradigm for Christology. Vladimir’s Seminary, New York “This book, in a way that is all too rare today, unites genuinely historical and theological study. Perceiving that the great temptation of modern Christians is to imagine Jesus as so very nice that he was just about God, Riches shows how the Christian tradition has envisaged Jesus as so profoundly divine that he was able to enter human nature and transform it . . An insightful, stimulating, and often provocative presentation of the person of Christ for today.” John Milbank — University of Nottingham “Aaron Riches has here produced by far the most novel, scholarly, and consequent contribution to Christology of recent times. Aaron Riches shows how the tradition shaped by Cyril of Alexandria, received in East and West, sheds light on the theological conversation today