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The human face of God
- Title
- The human face of God / by John A.T. Robinson.
- Author
- Robinson, John A. T. (John Arthur Thomas), 1919-1983
- Publication
- Philadelphia : Westminster Press, 1973.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
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- Description
- xii, 269 pages; 22 cm
- Summary
- Always provocative, the author anticipates that "churchmen and professional theologians who know what they are looking for will be ready with their stickers to label my position 'reductionist,' 'adoptionist,' 'humanist' and the rest. I believe in fact that they will be wrong and that it is none of these things. For I fully share their concerns--yet doubt if these can be matched by the old orthodoxies." He believes that "Christians must...be prepared to work through and out the other side of the traditional questions, if they are to be liberated to contribute Christologically to the secular debate--if they are not, that is, to be hung up with quite inadequate Christ-answers to the great human questions of our day." Thus Biship Robinson attacks the most persistent and perplexing questions about Jesus, who has been called the Christ: What does it mean to say Jesus is the "norm" for truly human existence? How can he be the man of God without ceasing to be a man? Do the doctrines of pre-existence, of Jesus as the Son of God, and the finality of Christ detract from his humanity? "We have been insisting," he says, "that whatever more may need to be said of Jesus as the Christ, nothing must be said that in any way detracts from a humanity, as the Epistle to the Hebrews puts it, 'at all points' like our own." Robinson affirms his deepest convictions but does not attempt to impose his views on others. "I shall not be arguing the case for why I am a Christian, or why anyone else should be. I shall be presupposing it in myself--though not necessarily in others. ...I cannot step out of my skin. 'For to me life is Christ.' Yet to presuppose is not to prescribe. The centre is thankfully given--but the edges and the ends are teasingly and liberatingly open." -Publisher
- Subjects
- Bibliography (note)
- Bibliography: p. [245]-249.
- Contents
- Our man -- A man -- The man -- Man of God -- God's man -- God for us -- Man for all.
- ISBN
- 066420970X
- 9780664209704
- LCCN
- 73000078
- OCLC
- ocm00549300
- 549300
- SCSB-180689
- Owning Institutions
- Princeton University Library