Jesus Christ for Contemporary Life. Don Schweitzer

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thus undermines patriarchal distortions of Christology.104 It also has liberating potential in relation to the environmental crisis. In the incarnation and resurrection of Jesus, Jesus’ body, a piece of creation, was taken up into the glory of God. This transformation of one piece of nature “pledges a joyful future beyond death” for the rest.105 From this expectation can come a new understanding of nature in the context of the environmental crisis, as destined for glory and to be respected as such. The emphasis in Alexandrian and Antiochean Christologies that Jesus reveals the fullness of humanity also has liberating implications when Jesus’ historical concreteness is recovered.106 In a world plagued by sin and evil, Jesus reveals that the fullness of humanity is to be found in the struggle for justice.

      Chalcedon as a Starting Point for

       a Descending Christology