What is it about?
After pointing out the strange similarities between the birth narratives of Jesus Christ in the Gospel of Luke and of Lord Lao in a medieval Daoist text, "The Conversion of the Barbarians," this chapter attempts to draw some fruit from the comparison for a new approach to Christology. How can we read Jesus in Luke anew after encountering Daoism?
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This is one of a collection of essays published as __Comparing Faithfully: Insights for Systematic Theological Reflection__. The essays address critical issues in systematic theology: divinity, theodicy, humanity, christology, and soteriology. The volume has been well received and is a common textbook in upper division, undergraduate and graduate courses.
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I very much enjoyed working with this diverse group of scholars. We had the opportunity to meet and reflect on each others' work in a conference sponsored by the editor, Michelle Voss Roberts, and Wake Forest University.
Dr Bede Bidlack
Saint Anselm College
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This page is a summary of: What Child Is This?, May 2017, Fordham University Press,
DOI: 10.5422/fordham/9780823274666.003.0011.
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