Metaphor of God Incarnate Christology in a Pluralistic Age

In this groundbreaking work, John Hick refutes the traditional Christian understanding of Jesus of Nazareth. According to Hick, Jesus did not teach what was to become the orthodox understanding of him: that he was God incarnate who became human to die for the sins of the world. Further, the traditional dogma of Jesus' two natures'human and divine'cannot be explained satisfactorily, and worse, it has been used to justify great human evils. Thus, the divine incarnation, he explains, is best understood metaphorically. Nevertheless, he concludes that Christians can still understand Jesus as Lord and the one who has made God real to us. This second edition includes new chapters on the christologies of Catholic theologian Roger Haight and Anglican theologian John Macquarrie.Hick, John is the author of 'Metaphor of God Incarnate Christology in a Pluralistic Age', published 2006 under ISBN 9780664230371 and ISBN 0664230377.