Jesus, Humanity and the Trinity: A Systematic Theology in Brief by Kathryn Tanner

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"To be a witness and disciple of Jesus, every Christian has to figure out for him- or herself what Christianity is all about. . . . This book is a contribution to such an effort, understood not as a bleak and dry academic exercise but as an attempt to meet an essential demand of everyday Christian living."

—from the Introduction


With simplicity and elegance, Tanner sketches a historically informed vision of the faith. Chapter 1 recovers strands of early Christian accounts of Jesus and his significance for a very different age. Chapter 2 situates Christology in a religious vision of the whole cosmos, while chapter 3 lays out the ethical and political implications of the vision. Chapter 4 speculates about the "end" of things in Christ. Tanner's work was developed from the Scottish Journal of Theology Lectures in 1999 in Edinburgh.

Author Biography:
Kathryn Tanner is Professor of Theology at the University of Chicago Divinity School and author of two Fortress Press titles: The Politics of God: Christian Theologies and Social Justice (1992) and Theories of Culture (1998). She is co-editor of the Guides to Theological Inquiry series.

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