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Book Review: Christology: A Biblical, Historical, and Systematic Study of Jesus

such human issues as suffering, fairness, personal identity, and the relation between love and justice. In his final essay he ends as he began, weaving both love and justice into that living dynamic where each is essential to the other. In the end, one does not critique R.; one admires him. One does not analyze what he says; one engages him in the saying. So much of his own thought has developed through dialogue with others (his renowned "detours"), that it would be a disservice not to engage him in the same way. R.'s thought does not boil down to a system, much less a collection of slogans (even his trademark "the symbol gives rise to thought"). The master of telos is only served well if the reader comes away wondering, perhaps even in directions which the master himself never imagined. Those already familiar with R. will find here food to delight, challenge aplenty, and perhaps even an invitation to journey with him along paths as yet untried. For those seeking an entry into R.'s thought, a caution and an endorsement. The caution: there is no easy road into his world, no privileged or logical place to begin. Yet there is much to recommend this volume as a point of entry. The introduction offers an excellent sweep of the structure and content of the book and locates its essays within a carefully wrought intellectual biography of their author. And the essays themselves present in ever recurring fashion the foundational themes that lie at the heart of R.'s work.