Let's start with Jesus

the long version

How would our understanding be affected if we instead took Jesus as our starting point for doing theology? In Let's Start with Jesus, biblical scholar Dennis Kinlaw explores this question. In seeking to describe the nature of the relationship God desires with us, he explores three metaphors--royal/legal, familial, and nuptial--which serve as motifs for his reflection. Taking familiar theological categories, Kinlaw views them through the primary lens of the person and work of Jesus, and finds that Jesus reveals rich pictures of the nature of God, the nature of personhood, the problem of sin, the way of salvation, and finally, the means of sanctification via perfect love.