660 - The Incarnation of Freedom and Love

The Incarnation of Freedom and Love
By Ruth Page
Cleveland, The Pilgrim Press, 1993. London, SCM Press, 1991. 214 pp. $15.95.

Ruth Page, a Presbyterian formed within the Church of Scotland" and Associate Dean of the Faculty of Divinity at the University of Edinburgh, develops a christology to follow her earlier theology, Ambiguity and the Presence of God. Part one, "The Content of the Given," and Part four, "Christology," are "narrative description" telling the "action [divine and human] of freedom and love in salvation." Parts two and three argue for construing God and Jesus through the metaphor of drama, "with action and relationship as its primary characteristics." A strength of this work is her construal of salvation in contemporary terms and her awareness that social location strongly affects this. Her categories of freedom and love as the identifying acts of God and Jesus are explained in terms of the experiences of middle class, academic, Western Christians.

Elizabeth Bettenhausen
The Women's Theological Center
Boston, MA.