کریستولوژی عادی: تو مرا چه می‌گویی؟ پاسخ‌هایی از صندلی‌های کلیسا

Ordinary Christology is defined as the account of who Jesus was/is and what he did/does that is given by Christian believers who have received no formal theological education. In this fascinating study Ann Christie analyses, and offers a theological appraisal, of the main christologies and soteriologies operating in a sample of ordinary churchgoers. Christie highlights the formal characteristics of ordinary Christology and raises questions about how we should respond to the beliefs about Jesus held by ordinary churchgoers. Empirical findings have important pastoral, theological, and missiological implications, and raise important questions about the importance (or otherwise) of 'right' belief for being Christian. This book presents a model for how the study of ordinary theology can be conducted, with the in-depth theological analysis and critique which it both requires and deserves. Acknowledgements ix 1 Introduction 1 Testing Ordinary Christology 2 Learning Ordinary Christology 6 2 Studying Ordinary Christology 11 Empirical Theological Research 11 Descriptive Research: A Hermeneutical-Phenomenological Approach 13 Anything to Declare? 15 Choosing an Empirical Research Method 17 The Qualitative Research Interview 19 Data Analysis 23 Theological Analysis 25 Some Methodological Problems 26 3 Functional Christology 33 Absence of a Doctrine of Pre-existence 33 Absence of a Doctrine of the Immanent Trinity 36 Jesus is Not God 40 Virginal-Conception Christology 43 Spirit Christology 47 Jesus is Divine? 50 Functional Christology 52 Arianism All Over Again? 55 Modalist Tendencies 57 Assumptions of Orthodoxy 60 4 Ontological Christology 63 Jesus is God 63 Tritheistic Tendencies 66 Incarnational Christology 69 Truly Human? 72 Taking Myth Literally 75 5 Sceptical Christology 77 A Problem With Miracle 77 History Challenges Dogma 80 Liberal Tendencies 82 Radical Liberal Christology 84 Jesus the Representative Human 86 Human not Divine 89 6 Three Soteriologies 93 Exemplarist Soteriology 93 An Exemplarist Interpretation of the Cross 93 The Cross as a Demonstration of the Love of God 98 Traditionalist Soteriology 101 A Traditionalist Interpretation of the Cross 101 Forgiveness Without an Atoning Death 106 Eternal Salvation Through Merit 109 Evangelical Soteriology 112 Substitutionary Atonement 112 A Personal Relationship with Jesus 116 7 Soteriological Difficulties 121 Saved From What? 121 Where is the Evidence? 122 Why Did Jesus Have to Die? 125 A Sadistic God? 127 How Does Jesus Save? 132 Salvation through Jesus Alone? 137 The Default Soteriology: Jesus as Exemplar 144 8 Some Formal Characteristics of Ordinary Christology 149 Ordinary Christology is Story-Shaped 149 Do Ordinary Believers ‘Do Christology’? 153 Ordinary Christology and Affective Christology 159 On Not Learning Christological Dogma 163 Is Ordinary Christology Essentially Non-Cognitive? 170 9 Living Christology 177 Engaging With the Story of Jesus 177 Difficulties of Engagement 177 The Story and Salvation 181 Is Jesus Really That Important? 183 Learning From Ordinary Christology 189 Bibliography 193 Index 211 Introduction -- Studying Ordinary Christology -- Functional Christology -- Ontological Christology -- Sceptical Christology -- Three Soteriologies -- Soteriological Difficulties -- Some Formal Characteristics Of Ordinary Christology -- Living Christology. Ann Christie. Includes Bibliographical References And Index. Offers an account of who Jesus was/is and what he did/does that is given by Christian believers who have received no formal theological education. This title analyses, and offers a theological appraisal, of the main christologies and soteriologies operating in a sample of ordinary churchgoers.