4.4 Haight (1999)
Haight, Roger (1999) Jesus: Symbol of God. Maryknoll, New York: Orbis Books.
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Author Roger Haight (1936- ) is an American Jesuit theologian, who received his Ph.D. in Theology from the University of Chicago in 1973. He is the past president of the Catholic Theological society of America. He taught in a number of Jesuit schools throughout the world. In 2004 the vatican's education office barred Haight from teaching at the Jesuit Weston School of Theology in response to questions about this book, which was the winner of the 1999 top prize in theology fro the U.S. Catholic Press Association. He began teaching at Union Theological Seminary, a leading non-denominational seminary, in 2004. In 2009 the Congregation for the Doctrine of Faith publicly barred Haight from writing on theology and forbade him to teach anywhere, including non-Catholic institutions. He is currently the Director of the Ph.D. Program. |
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This is what I consider to be the best detailed, postmodern Christology--an interpretation of what it means for
Christians to call Jesus of Nazareth "the Christ" today--within the context of its reinterpretation of the 2,000-year
Christian tradition using the crucial concept of "symbols."
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This is what I consider to be the best detailed, postmodern Christology--an interpretation of what it means for
Christians to call Jesus of Nazareth "the Christ" today--within the context of its reinterpretation of the 2,000-year
Christian tradition using the crucial concept of "symbols."
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"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...Highly recommended for all who think about and study theology." ~Elizabeth Johnson, C.S.J., Fordham University
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A major achievement that will become a very useful, if not standard, text in courses on Jesus and christology." ~Francis Schussler Fiorenza, Harvard Divinity School.
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This is a wonderful, mind-clearing, landmark book. It is the book I have been waiting for, the one that clears way 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.
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