Now in paperback! Jesus Symbol of God Roger Haight Catholic Book Club Selection “A wonderful, mind-clearing, landmark book. It is the book I have been waiting for, the one that clears away much of the intellectual fog that has prevented any coherent, sensible preaching about the Holy Trinity for the last several centuries. Hooray!”—David Toolan, S.J., Associate Editor of America
January ISBN 1-57075-311-3 520pp. Index 6 x 9-1/4 Paper $24.00

“This book is a flagship in a fleet of late twentieth century works that show American Catholic theology has indeed come of age. Deeply thoughtful in its exposition, lucid in its method, and by turns challenging and inspiring in its conclusions, this christology gives a new articulation of the saving ‘point’ of it all.”—Elizabeth Johnson, C.S.J., author of She Who Is

Already hailed as a landmark in contemporary Catholic theology, Jesus Symbol of God surveys scriptural data, the key moments in the development of doctrine, and the distinctive horizons of our contemporary world to develop a comprehensive and systematic christology for our time. The task of christology is to explain what it means to say that Jesus is the bearer and revealer of God in the Christian community, the decisive mediation of God’s salvation—or, in other words, the symbol of God.

Roger Haight is a Jesuit priest and professor of historical and systematic theology at the Weston Jesuit School of Theology in Cambridge, Mass. A past-president of the Catholic Theological Society of America, he is the author of The Experience and Language of Grace; Dynamics of Theology and An Alternative Vision: An Interpretation of Liberation Theology.

 

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