A Christological Catechism: New Testament Answers Book

	Abbreviations
	Foreword	1
	Questions	5
1	Do the Gospel Stories Present an Accurate Factual Account of the Teaching and Deeds of Jesus of Nazareth?	7
2	How Much Can We Claim To Know About the Jesus of History?	11
3	Do the Apocryphal Gospels Tell Us Anything Important About Jesus of Nazareth?	18
4	Is Not Such an Approach to the Jesus of History and to the Canonical Gospels Tantamount to an Implicit Reduction in Christian Faith and Contrary to a Centuries-Long Tradition of Gospel Interpretation?	21
5	How Historical Are the Infancy Narratives of the Matthean and Lucan Gospels?	28
6	Does the Story of the Virgin Birth Record Simple Historical Fact or Are There Other Possible Ways of Understanding It?	32
7	How Are We To Understand the References to the Brothers and Sisters of Jesus in the New Testament?	36
8	How Are the Gospel Accounts of Jesus' Baptism To Be Understood?	38
9	How Are the Gospel Accounts of Jesus' Temptations To Be Understood?	43
10	What Themes in the Gospels Are Accepted as Representing the Teachings of Jesus Himself?	45
11	What Did Jesus Teach About the Kingdom of God?	48
12	How Are Jesus' Sayings and Parables To Be Understood, Also His Sermon on the Mount?	51
13	How Are the Gospel Accounts of Jesus' Miracles To Be Understood?	56
14	How Are Jesus' Words to Simon Peter at Caesarea Philippi To Be Understood?	62
15	How Are Jesus' Words and Actions at the Last Supper To Be Understood?	66
16	Who Was Responsible for the Death of Jesus?	76
17	Are There Different Interpretations of Jesus as the Christ (or Different Christologies) in the New Testament?	81
18	How Are References to the Resurrection of Jesus in the New Testament To Be Interpreted?	86
19	How Are New Testament References to the Ascension of Jesus To Be Understood?	93
20	Did Jesus Clearly Claim To Be God?	97
21	Did Jesus of Nazareth Know All Things, Even About the Future?	101
22	What Is To Be Said of the Titles Messiah or Christ, Son of Man, Son of God, Lord, etc.?	102
23	After the Resurrection Was Jesus Proclaimed Unambiguously from the Start as Son of God, Equal to the Father?	108
24	In What Sense Can It Be Said That Jesus Was the Redeemer of the World?	110
25	Did Jesus Found the Church?	112
	Appendix	117
	App. 1. The Biblical Commission and Its Instruction on the Historical Truth of the Gospels	119
	App. 2. Instruction: Text	153
	App. 3. Vatican Council II Dogmatic Constitution, Dei Verbum [section]19 (AAS 58 [1966] 826-27)	163
	Select Bibliography	165
	Indexes	167