Faith of Jesus

Combining the faith-development theory of James Fowler with the psychodynamics of Viktor Frankl, and utilizing many of the insights of contemporary biblical scholarship, the author has here proposed a unique and provocative interpretation of the life of Jesus as described in the Epistle to the Hebrews as the "e;leader and perfector of faith."e;No doubt, many will find this approach to a "e;life of Christ"e; to be novel, even disturbingly "e;unorthodox"e;. Yet it has been written in the conviction that the faith of most Christians, for the most part, has fallen into the heresy of "e;monophysitism"e;, if not in theory, at least in practice amounting to a denial of Jesus as a human being and, as a result, a person of faith. In addition, in his "e;Christological Postscript"e;, the author has sketched out the beginnings of a new, more evolutionary approach to understanding how Jesus might be understood to be divine, even while remaining the fully human character depicted in this book.