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In this second half of Dr. Bauckham’s 2017 presentation at the Logos conference at the University of St. Andrews, we hear the commenter, theologian Dr. Jeremy Begbie, Dr. Bauckham’s reply, and then Q&A time with the philosophers and theologians present. Among others, he fields questions from Drs. Timothy Paul and N.T. Wright. Many tough questions are raised here, and Dr. Bauckham answers some of them, again interacting with the views of Dr. J.R. Daniel Kirk.
In part of this episode Dr. Bauckham says,
There were actually Jewish theological terms for including Jesus in the divine identity, much more clearly than if they’d simply said “Jesus is God” or something of that kind. …“Jesus is God” could mean three of four different things. Jesus sitting on the cosmic throne of the universe can mean only one thing: he participates in God’s unique divinity.
Finally satisfied that I roughly understand what Dr. Bauckham means by “Jesus is included in the divine identity,” I comment briefly on his argument that this is what the New Testament authors (especially Paul and the author of the fourth gospel) think about Jesus.
You can find more about the Logos Institute’s cutting-edge work on Christian theology in relation to recent analytic theology here.
Links for this episode:
- podcast 213 – Has Bauckham clarified his “divine identity” theory? – Part 1
- Divine Identity as a Conceptual Tool for Understanding New Testament Christology
- The Logos Institute @ The University of St. Andrews
Dr. Bauckham’s home page
- Dr. Jeremy Begbie
- podcast 68 – Dr. Harriet Baber on Relative Identity and the Trinity
- “Constitution Trinitarianism: An Appraisal“
- Colossians 1:15-20; Daniel 7:13-14.
- This week’s thinking music is “Spastic Mumblings” by Jesse Spillane.
