Karl Adam, whose Son. of God, Christ Our Brother, and The Spirit of Catholicism are among the most eminent works of recent Catholic theology, speaks to us again of the person and the work of Christ, enlarging and deepening the historical perspectives of his earlier books. He compares the Christology of the Catholic Church with that o{ non-Catholic theology and demonstrates that the living Church is the true source of our knowledge of and faith in Christ. He discusses the Christ of the Scriptures, with special emphasis on the Pauline and Johannine viewpoint. He elaborates Christ's image as it appears in his consciousness of himself. And he leads on to the interpretation of the God-Man image in the history of the Church.
Karl Adam's special endowment, as a theologian, is his clarity which makes his theological speculations accessible and fruitful for a large audience. In this book, he was "not so much concerned with extending academic theology as with bringing into relief the values of life that can be apprehended in the actual development of the Church's Christology.” For theologians. students, laymen, this is an essential book.