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| Preface | |
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| Abbreviations | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Christ, the object of Christology | |
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| Historical study of Jesus of Nazareth | |
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| The Jesus of history and the Christ of faith | |
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| "Ascending" and "descending" Christology | |
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| Christology and Jesuology | |
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| The Church, the home of faith in Jesus | |
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| The Christological faith of the early Councils | |
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| Christology and the mystery of God | |
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| The Expected Messiah | |
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| The account of the beginning | |
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| Man, made in God's image | |
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| The destruction of God's image through sin | |
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| Man cannot redeem himself | |
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| The promise of the Redeemer in the Protogospel | |
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| Preparation of Israel | |
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| The Covenant and expectation of the Messiah | |
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| The poems of the Servant of Yahweh | |
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| The Son of man | |
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| A saviour, king and priest | |
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| The preparation of the Gentiles | |
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| Christ, the centre and goal of history | |
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| The purpose of the Incarnation | |
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| Christ, God's greatest gift to men | |
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| Christ and time | |
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| The Coming of Christ in the Fullness of Time | |
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| Jesus really did exist | |
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| Jesus Christ, perfect man | |
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| The virginal conception of Jesus | |
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| Christ had a real body | |
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| Christ had a real soul | |
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| Jesus, a man of our race | |
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| Human features of Jesus in the Gospels | |
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| The Mother of the Redeemer | |
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| Jesus Christ, God and Son of God | |
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| The Church's belief in the divinity of Christ | |
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| The divinity of Jesus announced in the Old Testament | |
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| The divinity of Jesus in the Synoptic Gospels | |
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| The divinity of Jesus in St Paul | |
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| Christ, the Word and Son of God in St John | |
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| The testimony of the Fathers of the Church | |
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| The Incarnation, the work of the Trinity | |
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| The immutability of God, and Incarnation | |
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| The appropriateness of the Incarnation | |
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| The Incarnation and the divine perfections | |
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| The appropriateness of the Incarnation from the point of view of the Word | |
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| The appropriateness of the Incarnation from the point of view of human nature | |
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| God's freedom as regards the Incarnation | |
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| The Person of Christ | |
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| The unicity of Christ's Person | |
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| Nestorianism and the Council of Ephesus | |
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| The testimony of the New Testament | |
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| The testimony of the Fathers | |
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| Union and distinction of Jesus' humanity and divinity | |
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| Monophysitism and the Council of Chalcedon | |
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| Monothelism and the Third Council of Constantinople | |
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| The human actions of God in Christ | |
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| The inception of the Incarnation and its permanence | |
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| The ontological unity of the person: Christ's being | |
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| The terms "hypostatis", "substance" and "person" in the Patristic period up to the Council of Chalcedon | |
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| Being, person and nature according to St Thomas Aquinas | |
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| Being and person in Christ | |
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| The psychological unity of the person: Christ's I | |
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| The theory of the "assumptus homo" | |
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| Theories concerning the I of Christ | |
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| Christ has only one I | |
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| Other theories about person and its repercussions in Christology | |
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| The Cartesian twist. Anton Gunther and Antonio Rosmini | |
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| Karl Rahner's theory | |
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| "Non-Chalcedonian" Christologies | |
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| Other aspects of the personal unity of Christ | |
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| Jesus' filial relationship to the Father | |
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| Man's relationship of adoration to Christ | |
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| Human language on the mystery of Christ | |
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| Christ: Way, Truth and Life | |
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| Christ, Mediator between God and men | |
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| Christ, King and Shepherd | |
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| The nature of Christ's kingship | |
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| The universality of Christ's kingdom | |
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| Christ's power | |
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| Christ, Prophet and Teacher | |
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| Christ, the fullness of God's Revelation | |
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| Christ's human knowledge | |
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| Acquired knowledge | |
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| Infused knowledge | |
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| Science of vision | |
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| Jesus, viator and comprehensor | |
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| Jesus' faith | |
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| Jesus' infallibility; were there things he did not know? | |
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| Jesus Christ, Priest of the New Covenant | |
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| The Messiah, priest and king | |
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| The notion of priesthood. Priest after the order of Melchizedek | |
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| Priest and victim | |
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| Christ's priesthood, one and eternal | |
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| Christ is priest as man. The essential constituent of his priesthood | |
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| Jesus Christ's holiness | |
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| The holy Mediator | |
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| The grace of union and "substantial holiness" | |
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| Habitual grace, the infused virtues and the gifts of the Holy Spirit | |
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| Gratia capitis | |
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| The fullness of grace in Christ | |
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| Christ is incapable of sin, and he is free | |
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| The temptations of Christ | |
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| Descending and ascending mediation | |
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| The Redemption (I) | |
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| The life of Christ | |
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| The Incarnation | |
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| Christ's public life | |
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| The passion and death of Jesus | |
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| Jesus foretells his death | |
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| The Father's initiative | |
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| Jesus being "abandoned" | |
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| The glory of the cross | |
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| The salvific meaning of Christ's passion and death | |
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| The sacrificial character of Christ's death | |
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| Christ, the offerer of his own sacrifice | |
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| The death and burial of our Lord | |
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| The indissolubility of the hypostatic union | |
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| Christ's burial | |
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| The descent into hell | |
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| Christ's exaltation | |
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| Our Lord's resurrection | |
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| The testimony of the New Testament | |
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| The resurrection of Jesus-a matter of history or of faith? | |
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| The soteriological value of Christ's Resurrection | |
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| The Ascension and Pentecost | |
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| Christ, Head of the Church | |
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| Judge of the living and the dead | |
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| The Redemption (II) | |
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| The Redemption as liberation and conciliation | |
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| Liberation from sin | |
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| Liberation from the power of the devil | |
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| Liberation from death | |
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| Liberation from the Old Law | |
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| The reconciliation of men with God | |
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| Christian freedom and human liberation | |
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| Presuppositions for a theology of liberation | |
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| Satisfaction, merit and efficient causality of Christ in the work of Redemption | |
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| Satisfaction for sin | |
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| The Anselmian notion of satisfaction | |
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| Justice and mercy in God | |
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| Penal substituttion | |
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| Vicarious satisfaction | |
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| Adequate and superabundant satisfaction | |
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| An infinite satisfaction | |
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| Christ's merit | |
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| Christ, the efficient cause of our salvation | |
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| The Redemption, a mystery of God's love and suffering | |
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| Redemptive love | |
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| God's suffering in Christ | |
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| The universality of the Redemption | |
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| Christ is man's saviour now | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| Bibliography | |
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| Index | |