Infinity Dwindled to Infancy: A Catholic and Evangelical Christology. This item is unavailable.Infinity Dwindled to Infancy: A Catholic and Evangelical Christology

At the heart of all ecumenical dialogue between Catholics and Evangelicals is their fundamental agreement on Christology -- their common confession of Jesus Christ as Son of God and unique Savior of the human race. In this book Edward T. Oakes surveys Christian teaching on the person and nature of Christ and looks at many doctrinal and historical issues essential to the study of Christology. Drawing on recent scholarship in New Testament and patristic Christology, key medieval theologians, major Protestant voices, contemporary Catholic theologians, and magisterial statements from Vatican II, Oakes presents two millennia of thinking on the Christian paradox of an infinite God who is a finite man -- or, in the words of Jesuit poet Gerard Manley Hopkins, "Infinity dwindled to infancy." The book concludes with a summary of the teaching on Christ that arose from the first seven ecumenical councils and a helpful glossary of technical terms frequently used in christological debate.

Edward T. Oakes, S.J., is professor of systematic theology at the University of St. Mary of the Lake / Mundelein Seminary in Mundelein, Illinois. He is the author of Pattern of Redemption: The Theology of Hans Urs von Balthasar and coeditor of The Cambridge Companion to Hans von Balthasar.