Christ Inexhaustible

A Provisional Christology for a Diverse World

Mike Higton author

Format:Paperback

Publisher:Cambridge University Press

Published:10th Sep '26

£40.00

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This book examines how Christians might learn to navigate the whole kaleidoscopic landscape of diverse imaginings of Jesus.

How can Christians navigate the kaleidoscopic landscape of devotion to Jesus? In this study, Higton explores what it might mean to worship and follow the Jesus who can wear so many faces. In conversation with Black, womanist, and trans theologies, Higton argues that classical Christological tradition can be a resource for liberative theologies.How can Christians navigate the kaleidoscopic landscape of devotion to Jesus? In this study, Higton explores what it might mean to worship and follow the Jesus who can wear so many faces and call with so many voices. Higton proposes a high Christology, in which the Word is the image of God's inexhaustible life, the incarnation makes that Word present in flesh that is itself inexhaustible, and the Spirit unfolds this inexhaustible life in a profusion of forms of devotion. Each such form is an improvisation upon Scripture and an experiment in love, and each also fraught with failure. In conversation with Black, womanist, and trans theologies, Higton argues that, for all the problems that beset it, the classical Christological tradition can be a resource for liberative theologies. He also shows that works of doctrinal theology can remain visibly rooted in specific lives and contexts, and oriented towards mercy, justice, and love.

'With clarity of vision, rigorous scholarship, and attention to diverse lived experiences of Christian faith, Higton presents a new and generative approach to perennial doctrinal debates. This landmark contribution should be read by anyone interested in Christology, in Christian practices of following Jesus, or in how these two relate.' Rachel Muers, Chair of Divinity, University of Edinburgh
'I remember being told by a Sunday School teacher that 'It's always about Jesus.' Mike Higton's hugely impressive book is all about Jesus. His exhaustive exploration of the person and work of Jesus, the Christ, is not some arid text concerned with disembodied theological concepts. Rather, Higton's text is an embodied and personal articulation of why Jesus matters for our sense of what it means to be human beings in a fractured and broken world, aching for justice and equity for all people, especially those on the margins. This is a must-read!' Anthony G. Reddie, Professor of Black Theology, University of Oxford
'Experiential and historical, devotional and scholarly, radical and traditional, this book by Mike Higton offers an account of Christology which is diverse, dense, and messy – in all the right ways! Here is a book which breaks down the usual theological dichotomies which pitch the credal against the constructive, and the doctrinal against the liberative. And it does so by pointing us back, time and time again, to the who of Christology. Drenched in Scripture and the Spirit, this is a book which challenges us to take the incarnation as seriously as possible, and demands reading and re-reading.' Tom Greggs, Director of the Center of Theological Inquiry, Princeton University

ISBN: 9781009867009

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480 pages