The First Christians and Christ
RECORDS OF BELIEFS and of teachings as well as of their historical progress are common to all men. The Church has its records. The first ones are inspired records, that is, the New Testament whose twenty-seven books testify to the life of Christ and the history of the early Church and Apostolic teaching to about […]
The Divine Christ and the Bible
SACRED SCRIPTURE is made up of a number of books, different in many ways, but all brought together in Jesus Christ. From Genesis to the Apocalypse or the book of Revelation, Jesus Christ is the center. The story of the Bible is the story of Jesus Christ. In the old Testament we are prepared for […]
The Deity of Christ
Don Closson Introduction I recently received a letter from someone who argues that there is only one God, and that He is called many names and worshiped by many different people who hold to many different faiths. This kind of thinking about God is common today, but its popularity does not reduce the intellectual problems […]
The Controversial Christ
Ralph Martin Jesus came as a “sign of contradiction,” laying bare the hearts of men and women. He comes to us today in just the same way. The early chapters of Luke’s gospel are like a laser light show of prophecy. The Spirit of God comes upon person after person and they prophesy under the power […]
Learning Christology through Dialogue with Jews
Allan R. Brockway If anything has been learned from interreligious dialogue it is that Christians can actually learn something, can gain knowledge or understanding about Christianity they did not previously have. In interreligious dialogue things are learned, not only about other religions, but also about ways in which the relationship between them and Christianity affects […]
Jesus Who Was and Who Is
Frederick Buechner There is the Jesus who was, and there is the Jesus who is. The Jesus who was is that fathomless, elusive, unpredictable, haunting, and finally unknowable figure who moves through the homely landscapes of the Synoptics and the twilit dreamscapes of John like a figure in an old newsreel. The film is scratched […]
Jesus the Jew
Jonathan Went Why study the historical Jesus? Because our faith is based upon a historical figure for whom more evidence exists than for Julius Caesar. Christians, Jews, journalists, theologians, historians and skeptics all take an active interest in every archaeological or manuscript discovery that might shed light or doubt on the origins of our faith. We, too, […]
Jesus Makes the Perfect Host
R. Scott Appleby A recent classroom interchange at a Catholic university, in a history class on American Catholicism: Student: Interesting you should bring up Communion today. I just had a long argument with my parents about it. Professor: What was the argument? Student: They said the host becomes the actual Body of Christ during Mass. I told them they […]
Jesus in the Catechism of the Catholic Church
PART ONETHE PROFESSION OF FAITH SECTION TWOTHE PROFESSION OF THE CHRISTIAN FAITH CHAPTER TWOI BELIEVE IN JESUS CHRIST, THE ONLY SON OF GOD The Good News: God has sent his Son 422 ‘But when the time had fully come, God sent forth his Son, born of a woman, born under the law, to redeem those who […]
Jesus Christ, God and Man
Fr. William G. Most Summary This article teaches that Jesus Christ is the Redeemer promised to Adam and Eve in Genesis 3:15, the only Son of God, and by that very fact, Lord of all Creation. He is the second Person of the Holy Trinity, sent to the world by the Father to become man […]