Images Of Jesus

It goes without saying that Jesus Christ stands at the center of Christian tradition.

But who, exactly, is Jesus? In this volume, L. Michael White explores how different communities, at different times, have taken the Jesus traditions and shaped an image of Christ appropriate to their own perspectives and needs.

White addresses the problem of the differing images of Jesus (which are even reflected in the Gospels) that stand in constant tension with one another.

White does so by examining the way the diverse images of Jesus arose within the development of early Christian tradition.

He facilitates an understanding of the Jewish religious, political, and cultural context from which Jesus emerged - the Greek Hellenistic influences on the early gospel traditions, non-canonical materials about Jesus, the Pauline tradition, as well as later developments in the Christology of the early church.