Who Do You Say I Am? Answers From The Pews Christie, Ann. creator text Electronic books. xx Farnham Ashgate Pub. 2012 monographic eng

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1 online resource (225 p.) 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. 1 Introduction; Testing Ordinary Christology; Learning Ordinary Christology; 2 Studying Ordinary Christology; Empirical Theological Research; Descriptive Research: A Hermeneutical-Phenomenological Approach; Anything to Declare?; Choosing an Empirical Research Method; The Qualitative Research Interview; Data Analysis; Theological Analysis; Some Methodological Problems; 3 Functional Christology; Absence of a Doctrine of Pre-existence; Absence of a Doctrine of the Immanent Trinity; Jesus is Not God; Virginal-Conception Christology; Spirit Christology; 6 Three Soteriologies. Exemplarist SoteriologyAn Exemplarist Interpretation of the Cross; The Cross as a Demonstration of the Love of God; Traditionalist Soteriology; A Traditionalist Interpretation of the Cross; Forgiveness Without an Atoning Death; Eternal Salvation Through Merit; Evangelical Soteriology; Substitutionary Atonement; A Personal Relationship with Jesus; 7 Soteriological Difficulties; Saved From What?; Where is the Evidence?; Why Did Jesus Have to Die?; A Sadistic God?; How Does Jesus Save?; Salvation through Jesus Alone?; The Default Soteriology: Jesus as Exemplar. 8 Some Formal Characteristics of Ordinary ChristologyOrdinary Christology is Story-Shaped; Do Ordinary Believers 'Do Christology'?; Ordinary Christology and Affective Christology; On Not Learning Christological Dogma; Is Ordinary Christology Essentially Non-Cognitive?; 9 Living Christology; Engaging With the Story of Jesus; Difficulties of Engagement; The Story and Salvation; Is Jesus Really That Important?; Learning From Ordinary Christology; Bibliography; Index. Religion Jesus Christ Person and offices Miscellanea Salvation Christianity Miscellanea Theology, Doctrinal Popular works RELIGION / Christian Theology / Christology BT203 232 Christie, Ann Farnham : Ashgate Publishing Ltd, c2012 9781409425366 (electronic bk.) 1409425363 (electronic bk.) http://public.eblib.com/EBLPublic/PublicView.do?ptiID=922444 http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&db=nlabk&AN=456965 http://public.eblib.com/EBLPublic/PublicView.do?ptiID=922444 http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&db=nlabk&AN=456965 EBLCP 120528 20200709055533.0 ocn794328898 eng