Jesus Christ: Revealer of the Triune God A (CT2201C)

Content

This unit will deal with aspects of the person and work of Jesus Christ. Particular attention will be paid to the question of Jesus as the question about the meaning of life, the search for the historical Jesus, and the New Testament origins of Christology. A systematic approach to the question of the self-understanding of Jesus, God and man, will also be developed. Tutorial work will canvass aspects of the theology of the Trinity.

Learning outcomes

Unit sequence

CT1100C and CT1110C

Pedagogy

A variety of learning resources – lectures, guided reading, peer discussion, tutorials, formative feedback on assessment tasks, and electronic resources for further study – will enable students to achieve the learning outcomes of the unit.

Indicative Bibliography

• Allison, Jr. Dale C. The Historical Christ and the Theological Jesus. Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 2009.
• Bauckham, Richard. "The Gospels as Testimony to Jesus Christ: A Contemporary View of their Historical Value." In The Oxford Handbook of Christology, edited by Francesca Aran Murphy and Troy A. Stefano, 55-71. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2018.
  
• Dupuis, Jacques. Who Do You Say I Am? Introduction to Christology. Maryknoll: Orbis Books, 1994.
• Johnson, Elizabeth A. Consider Jesus: Waves of Renewal in Christology. New York: Crossroad, 1990.
• Kasper, Walter. Jesus the Christ. New ed. London: T. & T. Clark, 2011.
• Lohfink, Gerhard. Jesus of Nazareth: What He Wanted, Who He Was. Collegeville: Liturgical Press, 2012.
• Meier, John P. "The Historical Jesus." In The Jerome Biblical Commentary for the Twenty-First Century (Third Fully Revised Edition), edited by John J. Collins, Gina Hens-Piazza, Barbara Reid OP, and Donald Senior CP, 145-163. London: T&T Clark, 2022.
• O’Collins, Gerald. Christology: A Biblical, Historical and Systematic Study of Jesus Christ. 2nd ed. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2009.
• Powell, Mark A. Jesus as a Figure in History: How Modern Historians View the Man from Galilee. Louisville: Westminster John Knox Press, 1998.
• Rausch, Thomas P. Who is Jesus? An Introduction to Christology. Collegeville: Liturgical Press, 2003.

Assessment