Reconfiguring Thomistic Christology

Matthew Levering holds the James N. and Mary D. Perry Jr. Chair of Theology at Mundelein Seminary. He is the author of Aquinas's Eschatological Ethics and the Virtue of Temperance (2019) and Paul in the 'Summa Theologiae' (2014), and the co-editor of The Oxford Handbook of the Reception of Aquinas (2021).

• Introduction; 1. Contemporary Thomistic Christology; 2. Christ the New Adam: The New Creation; 3. Christ the New Isaac: The Eschatological Temple; 4. Christ the New Moses: The Eschatological Exodus; 5. Christ the New Joshua: The Eschatological Promised Land; 6. Christ the New David: The Eschatological Kingdom; Conclusion.

'In this book, Levering not only documents the contemporary re-emergence of Thomistic Christology. He also contributes to it significantly by underscoring the biblical and typological framework of St. Thomas' Christology. He does so while illustrating manifold connections between Aquinas' scriptural exegesis and that of many contemporary biblical interpreters, in a contribution that is both original and sorely needed, restoring unity to regions of theology that are often separated artificially. This is a bold work of theological faith and historical reason, contemporary biblical exegesis and classical scriptural theology, yet another illustration of the judicious insight and tangible charity of Matthew Levering as a central protagonist of theology in our era.' Thomas Joseph White, OP, Rector, Angelicum, Rome