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| Acknowledgments | |
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| Introduction | |
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| The Person of Jesus in the New Testament | |
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| Objectives | |
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| Supplemental Reading | |
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| The Jesus of History and the Christ of Faith | |
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| How Did Jesus Reveal That He Was the Son of God Incarnate? | |
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| Jesus Is Fully Man | |
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| Jesus' Perception of Who He Is | |
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| What Jesus Says and Does | |
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| Son of God | |
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| Son of Man | |
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| The 'I Am' Sayings | |
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| Conclusion of Part Two | |
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| How Does the New Testament Church Proclaim Jesus to Be God? | |
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| The Word Through Whom the Father Created | |
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| Jesus Is Lord | |
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| Jesus Is Worshiped | |
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| Does the New Testament Call Jesus 'God'? | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| Further Reading | |
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| Jesus: The Fathers and the Early Councils | |
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| Objectives | |
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| Supplemental Reading | |
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| Opening Thoughts | |
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| Factors That Contributed to the Patristic Christological Development | |
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| Never a Doubt as to What the Faith Is | |
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| Three Christological Truths | |
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| From Ignatius of Antioch to the Council of Nicaea | |
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| Ignatius of Antioch and the Docetists | |
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| Justin Martyr the Apologist | |
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| Dynamic and Modalistic Monarchianism | |
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| Dynamic Monarchianism (Adoptionism) | |
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| Modalistic Monarchianism (Sabellianism) | |
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| Tertullian: The Word Became Flesh | |
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| Origen and the Soul of Christ | |
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| Arius' Christology and the Council of Nicaea | |
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| From Athanasius to the Council of Chalcedon | |
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| Athanasius: The Word Became Man and Did Not Come Into Man | |
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| Apollinarius and the Humanity of Christ | |
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| The Cappadocians: What Is Not Assumed Is Not Saved | |
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| Nestorius vs. Cyril | |
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| The Christology of Nestorius | |
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| The Christology of Cyril of Alexandria | |
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| From Ephesus to Chalcedon | |
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| The Council of Chalcedon | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| Further Reading | |
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| Some Further Developments in Christology | |
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| Objectives | |
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| Supplemental Reading | |
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| Further Patristic Developments Concerning the Humanity of Jesus | |
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| Christ Possesses Both a Divine and Human Intellect and Will | |
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| Christ's Human Knowledge and Consciousness | |
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| The Human Knowledge of Jesus | |
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| The Son's Human Self-consciousness | |
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| Did Jesus Know That He Was God? | |
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| How Did the Son of God Become Humanly Conscious of His Divine Identity? | |
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| Is Jesus a Human Person? | |
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| The Human 'I' of Jesus | |
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| Further Issues Concerning the Incarnation | |
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| The Son of God Subsists as Man | |
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| Kenotic Christology | |
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| The Son's 'Sinful' Humanity | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| Further Reading | |
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| New Testament Soteriology | |
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| Objectives | |
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| Supplemental Reading | |
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| The Work of the Cross | |
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| Assuming Our Condemnation | |
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| Jesus' Atoning Sacrifice | |
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| Putting to Death Our Sinful Humanity | |
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| The Resurrection and Pentecost | |
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| The Resurrection: The Father's Love for Jesus | |
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| From the Cross to the Resurrection and the Gift of the Spirit | |
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| The Acts of the Apostles | |
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| The Letters of Paul | |
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| The Gospel of John | |
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| The Letter to the Hebrews | |
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| The Book of Revelation | |
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| The Son of God Risen as a Complete Man | |
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| The New Life of the Holy Spirit | |
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| Being a New Creation in Christ | |
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| Living in Christ | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| Further Reading | |
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| Further Developments in Soteriology | |
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| Objectives | |
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| Supplemental Reading | |
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| Patristic Soteriology | |
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| Justin Martyr | |
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| Irenaeus | |
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| Tertullian | |
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| Origen | |
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| Athanasius | |
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| The Cappadocians | |
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| Augustine | |
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| Medieval Soteriology | |
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| Anselm of Canterbury | |
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| Abelard and Bernard of Clairvaux | |
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| Thomas Aquinas | |
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| Contemporary Soteriology | |
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| Karl Barth | |
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| Gustavo Gutierrez and Liberation Theology | |
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| Pope John Paul II | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| Further Reading | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| Appendixes | |
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| Ignatius of Antioch | |
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| Origen | |
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| Athanasius | |
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| Cyril of Alexandria | |
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| Pope Leo the Great | |
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| Index | |