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Christology

This research examines the Christology presented by James H. Cone in his book God of the Oppressed. The research will provide background information on the author and then discuss his account of the figure of Christ from the standpoint of positioning where Jesus stands in the cosmology of religion, the meaning that Jesus has for modern experience, and the particular Christological emphasis that Cone identifies as most appropriate in his work. The research will conclude with a critique and evaluation of Cone's work that will be intended to place his views in the context of modern Christian thought.

It may seem something of a tautology to assert that Christianity could be nothing without Christ, but the content of that statement is that Christ functions as a powerful symbol of both history and religion and that symbols are important to both religion because they illustrate the relationship of Christ to life and the character of the relationship of Christians to one another and to non-Christians. The figure of Christ, indeed, is more than a symbol of human experience (although of course it is that), whether idealized or historicized. Christ is bound up with human experience, and conceptions held of Christ have historically informed the quality of human experience, at both individual and "macro" levels.

In Cone's formulation, the position of Jesus in religious experience is to be found where it lends meaning to social experience of the oppressed. What that comes down to in Cone's view is that Jesus is best understood a figurehead of liberation, particularly of black people. Indeed, the place of Jesus in black Christian thought cannot be divorced from the black social experience, particularly in America. The meaning of the Redemption and of Jesus' teachings must be found in the context of such experience, or no meaning can be found. Cone cites the divine apparition at the time of Jesus' baptism to explain that the miracle of the desce...

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Christology. (1969, December 31). In LotsofEssays.com. Retrieved 04:23, March 28, 2024, from https://www.lotsofessays.com/viewpaper/1683177.html