Hurtado on the early worship of Jesus
“…earliest believers treated the risen/exalted Jesus as they did only because they felt required to do so by God.”
“…earliest believers treated the risen/exalted Jesus as they did only because they felt required to do so by God.”
He argues cogently that even in the earliest parts of the New Testament, the religious worship of Jesus is presupposed, such as in Philippians 2.
If the earliest Christians’ answer (re: how one can be a monotheist and yet worship both the one God and Jesus) was a good answer then, why isn’t it a good answer now?
“…in the New Testament Jesus is not worshiped ‘as God’ (whatever that may mean) but, instead, with reference to God, as the Son of God, as the Lord appointed by God…”
Dr. Hurtado explains the term “early high christology” and what it means when applied to his own work.
When a NT author claims that Jesus fulfills an OT text which is about God, is that his way of saying that Jesus is God?
A conversation about the New Testament on God, Jesus, and worship.
Dr. Hurtado on his book God in New Testament Theology.
In this second part of my conversation with Dr. Larry Hurtado about his book Destroyer of the gods: Early Christian Distinctiveness in the Roman World, we discuss the distinctive “bookishness” of early Christianity
Why did Roman rulers and polemicists find early Christianity so alarming, rather than just another religion?
Should Dr. Ehrman become a member of “the early high christology club”?
A conversation with the author of the Paideia John commentary on Jesus and God in the fourth gospel.
Trinitarian theologies are a major barrier to Muslims accepting Christianity. In this episode we hear how Mr. Qureshi changed his view that the Trinity is a patently ridiculous doctrine.
Is the New Testament position that Christians should only worship God himself?
Does the gospel of Mark hint that Jesus is Yahweh in the flesh?
Can a historian conclude that Jesus thought he was God?
Some friendly disagreements about the prodigal son, women in Luke, and the deity of Christ in Luke.
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0.75x 1x 1.25x 1.5x 2x 0:0000:30:28 podcast 16 – How is Jesus “the one Lord”? Apple PodcastsGoogle PodcastsPlayer EmbedShare Leave a ReviewListen in a New WindowDownloadSoundCloudStitcherSubscribe on AndroidSubscribe via RSSSpotify Paul calls Jesus “the one Lord.” What does this mean? In episode 15, we saw why we can’t take Paul to mean that Jesus is Yahweh himself. In this episode, we see what, according to… Read More »podcast 16 – How is Jesus “the one Lord”?
A Congregationalist minister argues that Paul’s theology is unitarian.