RT Review
T1 L’Offre universelle du salut en Christ. By Emmanuel Durand
JF The journal of theological studies
VO 64
IS 1
SP 333
OP 335
A1 O'Leary, Joseph Stephen 1949-
LA English
PB Oxford University Press
YR 2013
UL https://www.ixtheo.de/Record/1783732334
AB In his third weighty contribution to the series ‘Cogitatio Fidei’, based on his course in Christology at the Institut Catholique de Paris, Durand (born 1972) strikes a blow against ‘contemporary theological sensibility, always readier to bring Christ near other human beings than to differentiate him from them’ (p. 161). Sure of his ground, and imbued with the courtesy of St Thomas Aquinas, he does not need to use words like Nestorianism, adoptionism, or psilanthropism to denounce the reductive and naturalistic tendencies rife in Christology today., Agreeing with N. T. Wright against John P. Meier, Durand dismisses the mirage of an objective account of the historical Jesus. If Jesus is the eternal Son in person, born of a virgin, ‘a Christology from below’ can only be a hoax.
K1 Rezension
DO 10.1093/jts/flt030