Reconfiguring Thomistic Christology

Unites eschatologically charged biblical Christology with metaphysical and dogmatic Thomistic Christology, by highlighting shared typological Christologies.

Matthew Levering (Author)

9781009221450, Cambridge University Press

Hardback, published 30 March 2023

342 pages
22.3 x 14.1 x 2.2 cm, 0.57 kg

'Hopefully, as members of the theological guild look up from the limited fare on offer in their disciplines, they will find in Levering's work an invitation to greater abundance …' Gregory Pine, Scottish Journal of Theology

In this book, Matthew Levering unites eschatologically charged biblical Christology with metaphysical and dogmatic Thomistic Christology, by highlighting the typological Christologies shared by Scripture, the Church Fathers, and Aquinas. Like the Church Fathers, Aquinas often reflected upon Jesus in typological terms (especially in his biblical commentaries), just as the New Testament does. Showing the connections between New Testament, Patristic, and Aquinas' own typological portraits of Jesus, Levering reveals how the eschatological Jesus of biblical scholarship can be integrated with Thomistic Christology. His study produces a fully contemporary Thomistic Christology that unites ressourcement and Thomistic modes of theological inquiry, thereby bridging two schools of contemporary theology that too often are imagined as rivals. Levering's book reflects and augments the current resurgence of Thomistic Christology as an ecumenical project of relevance to all Christians.

Introduction
1. Contemporary Thomistic Christology
2. Christ the New Adam: The New Creation
3. Christ the New Isaac: The Eschatological Temple
4. Christ the New Moses: The Eschatological Exodus
5. Christ the New Joshua: The Eschatological Promised Land
6. Christ the New David: The Eschatological Kingdom
Conclusion.

Subject Areas: Christian theology [HRCM], Biblical studies & exegesis [HRCG]