David Goetz’s Reviews > Crucified and Resurrected: Restructuring the Grammar of Christology > Status Update

I like the look of the blurb for this. What are your thoughts so far?

I've been disappointed, to be honest. Some of it's good--his claim that the conditions for God's knowability must be included in the doctrine of God, his emphasis on a trinitarian christology, his warning that a fundamentally-incarnational christology can make christology something other than theology (in contrast with a christology based on the resurrection, hence the title), and his related emphasis on christology as first theology. But a lot of the book seems bloated--heavy on analysis with little payout, unfortunately similar to quite a bit of analytic philosophy. He also talks about God's essence being the totality of his relations and seems thereby to fall prey to relational onto-theology, making God dependent on his creatures. Even though he makes it clear that God determines himself to be constituted through voluntary relationship with those other than him, it still weakens the doctrine of aseity in ways I'm not comfortable with. I'll write a fuller, and I hope clearer, review when I finish it today or tomorrow.