Jesus Becoming Jesus

"In sum, this book is a success in the discipline it aims at – and maybe the discipline that is most fundamental. That is, it is a conceptually careful, canonically minded and classically oriented theological exposition of the life, death, resurrection and Ascension of Christ as articulated in the Gospels. As such, it is a gift to the theologian who also wants to attend to the sacred page, to the parishioner seeking theological consolation, and to the pastor who opens the Gospels to proclaim the word of God."—Theology

"Jesus Becoming Jesus is a masterwork by one of America's finest theologians — a brilliant, profoundly Catholic act of scholarship, scrupulously thorough, beautifully written, faithful to Vatican II's Dei Verbum, and in service to the 'sacred page' as the Word of God. Father Weinandy has offered us yet another superb contribution to the life of the Church."—Charles J. Chaput, OFM Cap., Archbishop of Philadelphia

"We are fortunate to have this excellent interpretation of the person of Jesus as presented in the Gospels. Many persons have longed for a more serious engagement between the study of the biblical text and the development of Christian doctrine. Fr. Weinandy provides the reader with an outstanding model for this classic—but too often neglected—spiritual discipline."—Gary Anderson, University of Notre Dame

"This book is refreshingly—and also challengingly—different from most commentaries on the Gospels. Thomas Weinandy is a theologian for whom the church's doctrinal tradition is a living source of inspiration and insight. His reading of the Gospels is informed on every page by a fully incarnational and trinitarian faith. By focusing on the events of the Gospel narrative he forges a sophisticated and attractive theology of the saving acts of God. In these acts Jesus, he maintains, enters into his own identity as 'YHWH saves.' They are acts of the triune God, enacted in the humanity of Jesus so that humans can enter into communion with the triune God."—Richard Bauckham, Emeritus Professor of New Testament, St. Andrews University, Scotland

"In the very depth and freshness of insight, Weinandy's book offers an implicit argument for a reading of Scripture that foregrounds doctrinal concern."—International Journal of Systematic Theology