A New Book About Christology and Evangelicalism
This week the Center for Pastor Theologians published a new episode of The Pastor Theologians Podcast (also called The CPT Podcast) with Dr. Dan Treier, Blanchard Professor of Theology at Wheaton College, about his new book: Lord Jesus Christ.
As its title suggests, this book is about Christ and Christology. It is particularly about Christology in evangelicalism today. Although it is scholarly, and thus suitable for academics, Dr. Treier wrote it for pastors.
One can learn about it at the website of its publisher, Zondervan Academic, here: https://zondervanacademic.com/products/the-lord-jesus-christ
The podcast episode is 50 minutes long. I have listened to all of it. In one part, Dr. Treier talks about the strengths and weaknesses of Christology in evangelicalism. He thinks there are six ways evangelical churches are sliding into errors in Christology.
Here is an excerpt:
And then, sixthly, and mercifully last—this is the one I actually put when you told me that this question was coming, in all caps: NEGLECT!, exclamation point! We just don't talk about the riches of who Jesus is, and what He has done for us, centrally enough, in my view, in a lot of church life. Now, I hasten to add, this has been, at least in terms of who Jesus is for us, one of the emphases of my current pastor's ministry, and I so appreciate it, that either directly or indirectly I always feel like Colossians is going to be coming from somewhere. So, I'm very grateful for that. But I experience that very differently to some previous times in my church life in which so much of the emphasis was either on what we do for God, or, how much we should be reading the Bible, or, you know, other sorts of, sometimes, hobby horses. And so I think Christology, at least at an operational level, just ought to be a lot more prominent in our preaching and teaching and worshiping than it has been in, at least, seasons of my church life.
Here is more information about this episode and a link to it:
Christology and the Jesus of Evangelicalism
DAN TREIER
Dr. Dan Treier, Blanchard Professor of Theology at Wheaton College, joins the podcast to discuss his recent book on Christology, Lord Jesus Christ. In this conversation, we dig into questions of methodology, pastoral theology, and the strengths and weaknesses of evangelical understandings of Jesus. What does faith seeking understanding mean? How can we recover deep, biblical understandings of Jesus as our Lord and Christ? What is "theodramatic ontology"? All this and more on this new episode!
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