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Preface
Then and There
Chapter One: Jesus in His Christ Experience
Chapter Two: The First World: Galilee and
Jerusalem
Chapter Three: Into Mediterranean Dispersion
here and since
Chapter Four: In the Cares of New Testament
Scholarship
Chapter Five: In the Ebbing of “Ecclesiastical
Polity” –with the Heirs of Richard Hooker
Chapter Six: Amid the Irony of “Kindly Light”
– with John Henry Newman
Chapter Seven: Through the Reach of Poetic
Doubt – with Robert Browning
Chapter Eight: Down Among the Human Dregs
– with William Faulkner
Chapter Nine: In the Pride and Prejudice
of Empire – with Rudyard Kipling
Chapter Ten: At the Madman’s Bell Ringing
the Death of God – with Friedrich Nietzsche
Chapter Eleven: In the Homo-Erotic World
– with Oscar Wilde and De Profundis
Chapter Twelve: Christ-Learning as Personal
Crisis
Notes
Index of Names and Terms
Index of Themes
Scriptural Citations
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“A fascinating and deeply
learned book. The core theme is learning. The book rests on
a presentation of Jesus as having undergone a process of education:
he learned through suffering (Heb. 5:8). Cragg develops this
theme through a many-sided conversation with some modern figures
who provide case studies in Christ-learning: Hooker, Newman,
Browning, Faulkner, Kipling, Nietzsche and Wilde. This is
an exceptional work: first, here is a christology that refuses
to downplay the full, human obedience of Jesus, and takes
time, history and process seriously; second, this christology
becomes integral to an engagement with contemporary culture
which would be hard to match for thoroughness, sensitivity
and profundity. A very significant achievement.”
The Expository Times
“Written in a strikingly
subtle and penetrating style, this volume reveals an immense
erudition, and a truly extraordinary moral and religious sensitivity,
theological acumen and critical awareness, literary and other.”
W. D. Davies, Emeritus Professor, Duke University
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