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By Gerald O'Collins, S.J. Oxford University Press, 333 pp., $58.00; paperback, $14.95.

THE MESSIANIC SECRET is really a messianic mystery. Gerald O'Collins, a Jesuit who teaches at the Pontifical Gregorian University in Rome, seeks to clarify the mystery in this, his seventh Jesus book. His most comprehensive yet, it treats the subject in a way that has become typical of recent Christologies: O'Collins sets the terms of the discussion, troops through several chapters of biblical exegesis, summarizes the history of Christology and then gathers his conclusions. Here the mystery of ...