Contents: The authority of new experiences and the authority of the New Testament. The authority of new experiences -- The authority of the canonical New Testament -- Do we begin with the New Testament or with present-day experience? A false alternative -- New Testament theology of the experience of grace : justification for the method used. Ḥānan and ḥēn; ḥesed and ʼʻmet : the concept of grace in the Tanach -- Early Jewish reinterpretation within the Hellenistic concept of charis -- Theological theory of grace in Paul -- Paulinism outside the authentic letters of Paul : new interpretations -- Suffering for others : the future of a better world -- Churches in the process of stabilization speak of salvation-in-Jesus -- Jesus, the witness of God-is-love : Johannine theology -- Christ, the witness of God-is-righteous : the Apocalypse -- The concept of grace and the reality of salvation to which it refers -- "To bring all to unity (peace)" -- God of grace, Jesus Christ and the Spirit -- "Seek first the kingdom of God and his righteousness" -- The new testament churches as exodus communities in historically conditioned situations -- The New Testament experience of grace and social structures -- The life of grace and political power in the New Testament -- The life of grace and socio-culturally determined ethics in the New Testament -- Israel and the New Testament church -- Structural elements of the New Testament theologies of Grace -- God's glory and man's truth, well-being and happiness. Man and his future -- Critical rememberance of suffering humanity -- God does not want mankind to suffer -- The height and breadth and depth of human salvation -- Christian salvation. Abstract: In this sequel to "Jesus: an experiment in Christology", the focus shifts from the historical person of Jesus of Nazareth to the experience of Christ in the Church. As a result of their experience, New Testament Christians, in a variety of ways, found grace, or salvation from God, in Jesus. Our task must be to understand as deeply as possible the nature of the experience of these Christians in order to see how it is found -- and acted upon -- in our very different modern world. Published in: New York Physical description: 925 pages ; 24 cm

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