"The discipline of christology has been fragmented by a host of new developments, from historical Jesus research to reappraisals of classical christological doctrine, from liberation theology to ecotheology. In this monumental work Roger Haight draws together these fragments into a single, comprehensive, systematic statement. Not since Walter Pannenberg's Jesus: God and Man has there been such a significant contribution to the field." "Jesus Symbol of God offers a sense of Christ's uniqueness that defines the Christian community while revealing a God who is universally present and active in the world. The task of christology is to explain what it means to say that Jesus is the bearer and revealer of God in the Christian community, the decisive mediation of God's salvation - or, in other words, the symbol of God."--Jacket.