Fidelity with Plausibility: Modest Christologies in the Twentieth Century

Wesley J. Wildman

Fidelity with Plausibility: Modest Christologies in the Twentieth Century
Format
Hardback
Publisher
State University of New York Press
Country
United States
Published
15 January 1998
Pages
441
ISBN
9780791435953

Fidelity with Plausibility: Modest Christologies in the Twentieth Century

Wesley J. Wildman

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.

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