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Fidelity with Plausibility: Modest Christologies in the Twentieth Century
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Fidelity with Plausibility: Modest Christologies in the Twentieth Century Hardcover - 1998

by Wesley J. Wildman

From the publisher

The task of interpreting the religious significance of Jesus Christ takes shape in this book with the tension determined by two goals: fidelity to the classical Christological tradition, which draws our attention to Jesus in the first place, and plausibility with respect to all forms of contemporary knowledge. To ignore the classical tradition is to assume uncritically that contemporary plausibility structures are beyond question, while to forsake plausibility is to embrace the irrationalism of the theological ghetto-dweller. This book argues that maintaining this tension in our time can be achieved only with a modest interpretation of Jesus Christ, one that repudiates the hermeneutical absolutism associated with affirming that Jesus Christ is uniquely, exhaustively, unsurpassably significant for revelation and salvation.

From the rear cover

The task of interpreting the religious significance of Jesus Christ takes shape in this book with the tension determined by two goals: fidelity to the classical Christological tradition, which draws our attention to Jesus in the first place, and plausability with respect to all forms of contemporary knowledge. To ignore the classical tradition is to assume uncritically that contemporary plausibility structures are beyond question, while to forsake plausibility is to embrace the irrationalism of the theological ghetto-dweller. This book argues that maintaining this tension in our time can be achieved only with a modest interpretation of Jesus Christ, one that repudiates the hermeneutical absolutism associated with affirming that Jesus Christ is uniquely, exhaustively, unsurpassably significant for revelation and salvation.

Details

  • Title Fidelity with Plausibility: Modest Christologies in the Twentieth Century
  • Author Wesley J. Wildman
  • Binding Hardcover
  • Pages 441
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher State University of New York Press
  • Date 1998-02
  • Features Bibliography
  • ISBN 9780791435953 / 0791435954
  • Weight 1.72 lbs (0.78 kg)
  • Themes
    • Religious Orientation: Christian
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 97043545
  • Dewey Decimal Code 232.090

About the author

Wesley J. Wildman is Assistant Professor of Theology at Boston University. He is coeditor with W. Mark Richardson of Religion and Science: History, Method, Dialogue.

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