Resurrection, Apocalypse, and the Kingdom of Christ. Stanley S. MacLean
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      2. Christology and History

      But Torrance is aware that modernity militates against such an idea. It has made the historical nature of Christ’s redemption into a “stumbling block” to faith in Christ. This is ironic, for modernity gave birth to a renewed interest in history. This led to the quest of the historical Jesus, a critical investigation into real life of the man who the church proclaims as Lord. This quest was predicated, though, on the idea, which stems from Lessing’s “ugly ditch,” that there is an unbridgeable gap between the Christ of faith and the Jesus of history. However, this search for the authentic Jesus of history has only meant a reduction of the Jesus of history. The modern historian presents us with a great religious teacher but not one defined by his great acts in history: the incarnation, the atonement, the resurrection, and ascension. We hear about a great moral leader, yet one who in the end was swallowed up by history. But we do not encounter the Son of God in the flesh; the God-in-time who triumphs over history in the end.

      But God’s work in history did not end abruptly with the coming of Jesus the Messiah. Jesus Christ is also the Mediator between God and the whole world. “God was in Christ reconciling the world to Himself”

      3. Teleology