Christ Inexhaustible

A Provisional Christology for a Diverse World

AvMike Higton

Häftad, Engelska, 2026

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How can Christians navigate the kaleidoscopic landscape of devotion to Jesus? In this study, Higton explores what it might mean to worship and follow the Jesus who can wear so many faces and call with so many voices. Higton proposes a high Christology, in which the Word is the image of God's inexhaustible life, the incarnation makes that Word present in flesh that is itself inexhaustible, and the Spirit unfolds this inexhaustible life in a profusion of forms of devotion. Each such form is an improvisation upon Scripture and an experiment in love, and each also fraught with failure. In conversation with Black, womanist, and trans theologies, Higton argues that, for all the problems that beset it, the classical Christological tradition can be a resource for liberative theologies. He also shows that works of doctrinal theology can remain visibly rooted in specific lives and contexts, and oriented towards mercy, justice, and love.

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Utgivningsdatum:2026-11-30
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Serie:Current Issues in Theology
Antal sidor:477
Förlag:Cambridge University Press & Assessment
ISBN:9781009867009

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Mike Higton is Professor of Theology and Ministry at Durham University. An Anglican theologian who specialises in doctrine, he is the author of numerous works, including The Life of Christian Doctrine (2020), A Theology of Higher Education (2012) and Difficult Gospel: The Theology of Rowan Williams (2004).

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'With clarity of vision, rigorous scholarship, and attention to diverse lived experiences of Christian faith, Higton presents a new and generative approach to perennial doctrinal debates. This landmark contribution should be read by anyone interested in Christology, in Christian practices of following Jesus, or in how these two relate.' Rachel Muers, Chair of Divinity, University of Edinburgh

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1. Introduction; 2. An Orientation to bodies; Part I. Devotion: 3. Ordinary devotion; 4. Bodies of Christ; 5. Tradition: handing down and picking up; 6. The nature of devotion; Part II. Doctrine: 7. Approaching doctrine; 8. Jesus: a preliminary portrait; 9. The word of love; 10. The word in flesh; 11. The word and the spirit; 12. The nature of devotion – again; Part III. Scripture: 13. Reading toward the kingdom; 14. Reading toward Jesus; Part IV. Transformations: 15. Jesus, white and black; 16. Jesus, beyond binary; 17. Conclusion: navigational aids.