A fascinating collection of essays exploring a fresh contemporary approach to the person and doctrine of Jesus Christ. How should Christians think about the person of Jesus Christ today? In this book, Sarah Coakley argues that this question has to be ‘broken open’ in new and unexpected ways by an awareness of the deep spiritual demands of the Christological task and its strikingly ‘apophatic’ dimensions; by a probing of the paradoxical ways in which Judaism and Christianity are drawn together in Christ, even by those issues which seem to ‘break’ them most decisively apart; and by an exploration of the mode of Christ’s presence in the eucharist, with its intensification, ‘breaking’ and re-gathering of human desires. In this sequel to her celebrated earlier volume of essays, Coakley returns to its unifying theme of divine power and contemplative submission, and weaves a new web of Christological outcomes which remain replete with controversial implications for gender, spirituality, and ethics.
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Sarah Coakley is a theologian, philosopher of religion, and a priest in the Church of England. She holds the esteemed position of Norris-Hulse Professor of Divinity at the University of Cambridge.
