title: The Hebrew God: Portrait of an Ancient Deity
author:  Bernhard Lang 
description: "Lang's brilliant book sheds more, as well as new, interesting light on the origins of the God of Israel than any work I know."Bruce Chilton, Bard College
zlib_text: GOD SENT HIS SON
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  CHRISTOPH CARDINAL SCHÖNBORN
  
  
  ### God Sent His Son
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  ## A Contemporary Christology
  
  
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  With the assistance of  
  Michael Konrad and Hubert Philipp Weber
  
  
  TRANSLATED BY HENRY TAYLOR
  
  
  IGNATIUS PRESS SAN FRANCISCO
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  First published in English in Europe by  
  LIT Verlag under the title Christology  
  © 2004 by LIT Verlag, Berlin, Münster, Vienna, Zurich  
  This edition has been published under license from LIT Verlag
  
  
  Original German edition:  
  Gott sandt seinen Sohn: Christologie  
  Volume 7, AMATECA: Lebücher zur katolischen Theologie  
  © 2002 by Bonifatius GmbH Druck, Paderborn
  
  
  Cover art:  
  The Death of Christ  
  Sano di Pietro (1406-1481)  
  Gemaeldegalerie Alte Meister, Staatliche  
  Kunstsammlungen, Dresden, Germany  
  © Bildarchiv Preussischer Kulturbesitz /  
  Art Resource, New York
  
  
  Cover design by Roxanne Mei Lum
  
  
  © 2010 by Ignatius Press, San Francisco  
  All rights reserved  
  ISBN 978-1-58617-410-1  
  Library of Congre