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Book Review: The Point of Christology

I warmly recommend this work not as a first introduction to Christology (a book such as Dermot Lane's The Reality of Jesus would serve better) but as a second book in the field. Its brevity, clarity, balance, and ecumenical spirit are particularly commendable. The brevity is a liability as well, in that certain recurrent themes receive scant attention but are described as very significant: the role of worship as the basis of Christology; the function of metaphor in relation to metaphysical thinking; the connection between dogma and religious experience. A concluding chapter or epilogue and an index would also have been welcome. The book deserves a wide audience.