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Table of Contents

Introduction: Christ from other angles
Christology as the impossible
A sketch of the main constructive elements to be used and for what purpose
Angles for a postmodern christology
Post-metaphysical prologue : on the Word "God" and its meaning for a christology searching for other angles
In the beginning was the Word and the Word was "God" (John 1:1)
God, the Word
Why start christology with God?
Desire
Exploring christological doctrine from the angle of desire
Desire within a broader framework of human life and its possible implications for christology
Gift and grace
Derrida on gift
Desire and gift
The economy of grace : Tanner
Recognition
Recognition and desire in Hegel
Recognition of the other and desire in Levinas
Identity issues
Who is this human?
Unstable identities of descent and assent as reflected in Matthew 1
King among Kings?
The mother and identity : perspectives from Kristeva
Relativizing family ties as basis for identity a different community
Who do they say that I am : the outcome of Mark 8
The other approach to identity : John
Christ as the true Imago Dei
Excursus : Nietzsche's understanding of the human as the alternative to the notion of Imago Dei
Unity between human and God : identity again
Who is God?
Difficulties concerning God-talk in the Markian narrative
God's care sufficient
The kingdom as gift the impossibility of an 'economic' God
God as the object of love and desire
The kingdom of God as witness about God - Summing up Jesus' teaching about God : God as burglar
A major image of God and tensions : the Prodigal Son
God as Abba
Jesus functioning as God
Hospitality and forgiveness in Derrida : opening up to God
Who is righteous : the kingdom and the disruption of economies of merit and money
A community of excess
Excursus : the community of the church as a sign of the kingdom
Jesus' reinterpretation of the law : the law in the triadic relation
The theology of generosity: let God be god!
Rationale of the law and justice behind the law
The last judgment : Christ as judge and witness to justice
You are saved by your faith!
Three encounters
Recognition and rejection
Jesus as revealing answers to questions of identity
Jesus have a nature or two
Critique of the two-nature doctrine and new attempts
Christ as God's representation : the semiotic angle
Death and circumstances of death : the closing of the open world
The drama of Easter and its victim
Judas and Peter as models
Judas' betrayal
Peter's denial
Perpetrators and bystanders : collective evil reconsidered
Envious desire
Evil and identity
Bystanders
Jesus as a scapegoat preventing violence
Reflections on René Girard's theory
Mimetic desire and the mechanisms behind scapegoating
Girard on the non-sacrificial death of Christ
Dalferth : sacrifice as non-necessary
Anselm's Cur deus homo and beyond : escaping the trap of exchange and violence
J.D. Weaver : alternatives to Anselm's violence
Kathryn Tanner on the link between incarnation, cross, and sacrifice
Salvation as finding one's place : C. Gestrich
The crucifixion as realization of identity : the gift of recognition and representation
The scandalous gift : the cross
Recognition in Hegel : relevant for staurology
From recognition to representation
Death as a conclusio and abandonment
Implications and consequences
Epilogue to part III : identity issues revisited - Resurrection and incarnation as gift
The impossible impossible : resurrection from other angles
Resurrection faith, recognition, and gift : Marion
On the inconclusiveness of historical evidence
The Paulinian core argument a discussion
Resurrection as manifestation of incarnation : Dalferth
Conclusion: Resurrection as the symbol for a reopened future.

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Includes bibliographical references.

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Dewey Decimal Class
232
Library of Congress
BT203 .H47 2009, BT203.H47 2009

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p. cm.
Number of pages
379

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Open Library
OL22671741M
ISBN 13
9780802863713
LCCN
2008046515
OCLC/WorldCat
262878953
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5377621

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