Introduction
Our Approach
-Gal 4:4-5
-Starting point:
-“Original illumination”
The light
-St. Paul’s Conversion
-first fact presented to Paul
-Acts 9:20
-Gal 1:15-16
-St. Peter example
-Matt 16:17
-Matt 11:25
-Christology and the light
-Ps 36:9
-“Faith seeking understanding”
-Role of Scripture
-Jesus life event mirrors our questioning
-Luke 4:30 Hostile Crowd
-John 20:19 Easter evening
-Luke 24:32 Road to Emmaus
Why Christology?
-Can we preach Jesus Christ today?
-Knowledge is needed
-Do we know Jesus?
-Importance reflects on how we live our lives
-Doubts
-Is Jesus today the same as he was 2,000 years ago?
-St. Paul’s insistence on Christ
-2 Cor 1:19; 4:5, Gal 3:1
-Is St. Paul already distorted?
-Is our model of Jesus today accurate?
-Based on culture?
-Freud: Religion is a projection of desire
-Suspicion of Historical criticism
-“Do you know Jesus” is the foundation of theology
-Certainty
-Sense of actions of “Jesus”
-Sense of “Christ-like” people
-lived reality of Christ
-prayer, liturgy, love of neighbor
-Sense of certainty in knowledge and effect of Jesus
-Tension between two sides
-certainty of living historical faith
-How well do we know what that faith is based on?
-Christology is the core of every Christian theology
-Christocentric (Christ centered)
-foundation of all theology, if doubts exist it shakes everything
-Intense historical arguments
-effects not only theology, but Christian life
-cannot be impersonal
-1 Cor 15:17-18
-Direct connection with doctrine and living
-These debates are still passionate today
Purpose of Class is to answer the questions of Jesus
-Who is he?
-What did he want?
-What did he teach?
