Vancouver Island Theological Society

What did they read on Vancouver Island in January 2000?

Reading List – January 19, 2000

The subject for January 19, 2000 is Christology

Section 1: A few articles to catch up with what is going on in the Jesus Seminar and other places

1. John Macquarrie, "Current Trends in Anglican Christology" from Anglican Theological Review, 1997 pp. 563-570

2. Four articles from a series in Dialogue 37 (1998) pp. 9-37:

Marcus J. Borg, "Jesus and the Revisioning of Theology"
Wesley J. Wildman, "Pinning Down the Crisis in Contemporary Christology"
Wolfhart Pannenberg, " The Historical Jesus as a Challenge to Christology"
Birger A. Pearson, "An Exposé of the Jesus Seminar"
Marcus J. Borg, "Response to Wildman, Pannenberg, and Pearson"

3. An exchange between John Dominic Crossan and N.T. Wright from The Scottish Journal of Theology 50 (1997) pp. 345-379

4. Gerd Theissen, "Historical Scepticism and the Criteria of Jesus Research or My Attempt to Leap Across Lessing's Yawning Gulf" from The Scottish Journal of Theology 49 (1996) 147176

Section 2: Finally when all else fails there is something to be said to be said for a classic treatment from earlier years. The book recommended is:

D. M. Baillie, God was in Christ London: Faber, 1955 (2nd edition)

This is one of the great works of theology ignored by the pigmies of the current theological establishment.