This collection presents four volumes written by renowned Catholic scholars on different aspects of Christology. Discover how early Christian hymns influenced Christological doctrines. Examine Christology’s Trinitarian nature and how the Eastern and Western Christian traditions view it. Follow the resurrection narratives in the four Gospels and gain an appreciation for Jesus’ place in history. The Paulist Press Christology Collection brings cutting-edge scholarship, ecumenical perspective, and critical thinking to bear on this resonant topic.

What impact does the debate over the historical Jesus have on our faith as Christians? If the “real” Jesus doesn’t fit into what we know about the Middle East in the first century BC, then is he merely a mythic figure? The New Testament message is that Jesus of Nazareth was an actual, living person. In A Believer’s Search for the Jesus of History, Phillip J. Cunningham takes a hard look at the distinctive—and sometimes irreconcilable—views of scholars involved in this debate: Raymond E. Brown, ...