Incarnation and Resurrection: Toward a Contemporary Understanding

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Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing, Jun 15, 2007 - Religion - 418 pages
For too long contemporary theology has downplayed the importance of holding together the incarnation and the resurrection when thinking theologically. Paul Molnar here surveys the place of these key doctrines in the thought of several influential theologians: Karl Barth, Karl Rahner, Thomas F. Torrance, John Macquarrie, Gordon Kaufman, Sallie McFague, Roger Haight, John Hick, and Wolfhart Pannenberg.

Molnar demonstrates that whenever the starting point for interpreting the resurrection is not Jesus himself, the incarnate Son of the Father, then Christology and Soteriology are undermined because they are not properly rooted in a plausible doctrine of the Trinity. Fair, comprehensive, and balanced, Molnar's analysis, following Torrance and Barth, highlights the details of contemporary theology of the resurrection linked to the incarnation and maintains the necessity of the incarnation in its intrinsic unity with the resurrection as the beginning, rather than the end, of Christology.
 

Contents

Incarnation and Resurrection in the Theology of Karl Barth
1
Barth and Bultmann
15
Implications of the Resurrection for Barth
21
The Empty Tomb and Ascension
27
Resurrection and Reconciliation
36
Incarnation and Resurrection in the Theology of Karl Rahner
45
Incarnation and Resurrection in the Theology
81
Concept of Space
90
Incarnation and Resurrection in the Theology
155
Incarnation and Resurrection in the Theology
191
45
230
Incarnation and Resurrection in the Thought
233
Pannenberg on the Trinity and Chalcedon
291
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293
Ethical Implications
302
Conclusion
311

Analysis and Comparison of Barth Rahner and Torrance
121

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About the author (2007)

Paul D. Molnar is professor of systematic theology at St.John's University, Queens, New York. His previous worksinclude Karl Barth and the Theology of the Lord'sSupper and Divine Freedom and the Doctrine of theImmanent Trinity."

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