Edited by David F. Ford and Mike Higton
This Oxford Reader encompasses the two-thousand year history of responses to Jesus of Nazareth. The selected readings are arranged into seven chronological chapters, which are in turn organized thematically. More than 340 extracts are included, with familiar materials from key texts in the
history of doctrine presented alongside a diverse sample of devotional, popular, liturgical, historical-critical, philosophical, and mystical texts. There are extracts from poems, songs, and plays, as well as polemics, commentaries, manifestos, treatises, letters, novels, liturgies, and creeds. The
full range of responses to Jesus are represented in texts from Eastern and Western Christianity, both Catholic and Protestant, and additionally Jewish, Islamic, Hindu, Buddhist, and Zoroastrian texts. Spanning heterodoxy and radical thinking, this Reader presents an absorbing and many-sided picture
of the wealth of responses to Jesus.
GENERAL INTRODUCTION
Part 1. BIBLICAL AND PATRISTIC: To AD 451
A. The Life of Jesus
B. Jesus the Saviour
C. Typology and Apology
D. The Development of Christianity
Part 2. BYZANTINE AND EARLY MEDIEVAL: 451 -
1208
A. Contemplating Christ
B. Christ and Culture
C. Byzantine and Early Medieval Debates
D. Christ beyond Christianity
Part 3. LATER MEDIEVAL AND RENAISSANCE: 1209-1516
A. Following Christ
B. The Benefits of
Christ's Passion
C. Jesus and Judaism
Part 4. REFORMATION AND COUNTER-REFORMATION: 1517-1600
A. Christ and his Benefits
B. Christ in Word and Sacrament
C. Christ in Two Natures
D. Pursuing Christ
Part 5. EARLY
MODERNITY: 1601-1789
A. The Drama of Christ
B. Crucified for Me
C. Union with Christ
D. Discussing Doctrine
E. The Enlightenment
Part 6. THE NINETEENTH CENTURY: 1790 - 1913
A. The Historical Jesus
B.
Humility
C. Christ and the Spirit
D. Life in Christ E. Looking Eastwards
Part 7. THE TWENTIETH CENTURY: 1914 - 2000
A. Crisis
B. The Historical Jesus?
C. Christ and Salvation
D. Retelling the Story
E. God
Incarnate
F. Jesus beyond Christianity
G. The Face of Christ
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David F. Ford is Regius Professor of Divinity at the University of Cambridge. He was previously Senior Lecturer at the University of Birmingham, and is a past-president of the Society for the Study of Theology. He is author of 'Theology: A Very Short Introduction' (OUP). Mike Higton shares his
time between the Department of Theology and of Lifelong Learning in the University of Exeter, having moved from Cambridge University where he held the Naden Studentship for Research in Divinity at St John's College.
