The Philosophy of Christology
From the Bultmannians to Derrida, 1951–2002
- Theology
- Publisher: Wipf and Stock
- Published: 2022
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Publisher's Description
Given the perpetual problem of the historical Jesus, there remains an ongoing posing of the question to and a continuous seeking of the meaningfulness of Christology. From the earliest reckoning with the relationship between Jesus of Nazareth and the Christ of faith, what it means to do Christology today remains at the methodological center of the task and scope of every systematic theology. Whether giving an account of Albert Schweitzer's bringing an end to the quest for the historical Jesus in 1906, or attending to Rudolf Bultmann's period of no quest culminating with his demythologization project in the 1940s, how we still think of Christology as a matter of questions and concerns with meaning speaks to an unavoidable philosophizing of Christology. In this way, The Philosophy of Christology offers both a particular history of Christology in conjunction with a particular philosophy of Christology, which assesses the theological contributions by a group of Bultmannians following Bultmann in the 1950s and 1960s up to what can be reimagined by repurposing Jacques Derrida's philosophical question into the meaning of love in 2002.
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“With a historian’s care, philosopher’s audacity, theologian’s commitment, and artist’s hand, Hue Woodson continues his Heideggerian-theological denkweg, tracing demythologization from Bultmann through Derrida, narrating quests for the historical Jesus and approaching a philosophy of love. This intrepid apologia for meaning amid its crisis recognizes a clearing between the Jesus of history and the Christ of faith, where the play of christological structure may come to light, where anthropologic and Christologic may appear as properly intertwined.”
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