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Introduction:   Approaching the Whole of the Word

• The Approach of This Study

• The Basis of This Study

• The Purpose of This Study

• The Structure of This Study
   

Chapter 1   The Person Presented

• The Emerging Person

• Reductionism Made Explicit

  • First Relational Test

  • Second Relational Test

  • Third Relational Test

• The Person in Practice

  • In Human Contexts

  • With His Glory, Nothing Less and No Substitutes

• His Person Presented to New Disciples

• A Popular Jesus

  • Good Intentions: Knowing What's Important

  • Sincerity: Two Errors for Relationship

  • Accountable for His Whole Person

• Functional Implications
   

Chapter 2   The Person in Relationship

• The Relationship of God

• Redeemed from Reductionism in Relationship

• The Demands of Grace

• Functional Implications
   

Chapter 3   The Person in the Relational Progression

• Christocentric Implications

• The Transition Continued

• Relationship in Progression

• Strategic Shift

• Tactical Shift

• Functional Shift

• Functional Implications
   

Chapter 4   The Individual Person and the Whole

• "How Do You Read It?"

• The Person: Outside-In or Inside-Out

• Going Beyond Reductionism

• Identity and Its Formation

  • The Beatitudes

• The Process of Identity Formation

• "Who Is The Greatest?"

• Functional Implications
   

Chapter 5   Identity Crisis, Sanctified Identity and Bifocal Identity

• The Making of a Crisis

• Jesus’ Sanctified Identity

• The Nature of Discipleship

• Bifocal Identity

• Functional Implications
   

Chapter 6   Soteriology in Full Context & Process and The Qualitative Shape of
                 the Kingdom

• Establishing the Context and Process of Soteriology

  • Getting to the Heart of Soteriology

  • Salvation Comes with a Jolt in the Night

  • The Trinitarian Shape of Soteriology

  • The Ultimate Salvific Discourse

  • The Enhanced Shape of Soteriology

• The Qualitative Shape of the Kingdom

  • Its Questions and Approach

  • Its Whole and Reductionism

  • The Old and the New

  • The Problem with Kingly Rule

  • Its Qualitative Relational Nature and Function

  • Clarification and Summary Issues

• Functional Implications
   

Chapter 7   Jesus and Culture, Ethics, Mission

• Illuminating Deeper into the Surrounding Context

• Jesus and Culture in the Surrounding Context

  • His Purpose: Shedding Light on Reductionism and the Whole of Creation

  • His Approach: Three Qualifying Issues

  • His Practice: Triangulation and Reciprocating Contextualization

• Jesus and Ethics Both in the Kingdom & the Surrounding Context

  • The Nature of Jesus’ Ethics

  • Definitive Terms for Identity & Function: the Sermon on the Mount 

    • Matthew 5:21-48

    • Matthew 6:1-34

    • Matthew 7:1-34

  • Ethics Sanctified and Made Whole

• Jesus and Mission

• Functional Implications
   

Chapter 8   The New Relational Order & the Ecclesiology of the Whole

• The New Relational Order

  • The Process of Equalization and Jesus’ Working Assumptions

  • Redemption and the Normative Character & Collective Nature of Sin

  • Redemptive Reconciliation

  • The Rigorous and Vulnerable Process of Reconciliation

  • Communion in the New Relational Order

  • The Emergence of New Order Family

• The Ecclesiology of the Whole

  • Church Formation

  • Church Practice as Family or Orphanage

  • Jesus’ Post-Ascension Discourse on Ecclesiology to be Whole

  • His Church as Equalizer

• Functional Implications
   

Chapter 9   The Trinity in Christology with Pneumatology

• The Trinitarian Shape of Christology

• Trinitarian Uniqueness in Christology

• Integral Pneumatology: the Forgotten Person

• Functional Implications
   

Chapter 10   Eschatology: as Doctrine or Truth, as Event or Relationship

• Eschatology as Truth

• Eschatology as Relationship

• Functional Implication
   

Chapter 11   The Whole in Theology and Practice

• Knowing the Whole

• Teaching the Whole

  • The Three "ARE"s of Jesus' Pedagogy

• Building the Whole

• Celebrating the Whole

• "The Whole of God Embodied" (song)
   

Scripture Index

©2008 T. Dave Matsuo, Ph.D.     No part of this manuscript may be reprinted.

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