Images Of Jesus

About this book

It goes without saying that Jesus Christ stands at the center of Christian tradition. But who, exactly, is Jesus? In this volume, L. Michael White explores how different communities, at different times, have taken the Jesus traditions and shaped an image of Christ appropriate to their own perspectives and needs. White addresses the problem of the differing images of Jesus (which are even reflected in the Gospels) that stand in constant tension with one another. White does so by examining the way the diverse images of Jesus arose within the development of early Christian tradition.