Contents
Foreword to the English Edition, by Archbishop Allen Vigneron
Translator’s Preface
Foreword to the Original Edition, by Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger
List of Abbreviations
Part 1. The Church’s Faith in the Incarnation
1. The Scriptural Sources of Christological Dogma
2. The Formation of the Christological Dogmata
Part 2. What Christ Is in Himself
3. The Hypostatic Union
4. The Humanity of Jesus
5. Jesus’s Human Activity
Part 3. Christ’s First Coming
6. The Incarnation in the Divine Plan
7. Christ’s Place in Human History
8. The Salvation of Men by the Blood of Christ
9. The High Priest of the New Covenant
10. The Mediator
Part 4. Christ’s Return in Glory
11. Christ’s Return
12. From Final Eschatology to Intermediary Eschatology
13. The Last Things, Considered from the Perspective of One’s Individual Destiny
Conclusion to the Second Part
Works Cited
Index