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Bishop Robinson and Christology1

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 October 2008

S.J. Robert Butterworth
S.J. Robert Butterworth
Affiliation:
Lecturer in Christian Doctrine, Heythrop College, University of London
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‘A book’, says Lichtenberg, ‘is a mirror. If an ape looks into it, then obviously what looks back out is not an apostle.’ It may be hoped that these reflections on looking into Dr Robinson's book on Christology will not entirely obscure either the sound points he frequently makes in criticism of traditional Christology, or still less, the good intentions that have led him to write his book. I shall simply be trying to point the way towards how God's human face might possibly be revealed still more clearly in Jesus than it is in Dr Robinson's Christ.

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Religious Studies , Volume 11 , Issue 1 , March 1975, pp. 73 - 85
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1975

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Page 73 note 2 Robinson, J. A. T., The Human Face of God, London, SCM Press, 1973.Google Scholar Unless otherwise stated, page–references in the text are to this book.

Page 76 note 1 Cf. e.g., History of Dogma, II, pp. 203, 207 f, 218.Google Scholar

Page 80 note 1 Cf. DrRobinson's, contribution to Christ, Faith and History, edd. Sykes, S. W. and Clayton, J. P., Cambridge, 1972, esp. p. 42.Google Scholar

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