Desire, Gift, and Recognition: Christology and Postmodern Philosophy

Desire, Gift, and Recognition examines both the central content of the Christian tradition — that is, the story of Jesus Christ, and how he can justifiably be thought to reveal God — and postmodern thought under the presupposition that both are ways of dealing with, interpreting, or offering resources for orientation in life and the world. Given this, the obvious implication is that Christ and the message of Christ cannot be thought of as irrelevant to each other. Therefore, Christology also cannot be truly experienced outside the realm of ordinary human life.

Henriksen offers a clearly reasoned guide to the reason Christology still has something to say to contemporary believers and how theologians must learn to reconnect to the everyday human experience.