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In this presentation from the 2021 Unitarian Christian Alliance Conference Kegan Chandler examines the work of “Early High Christology Club” members Dr. Michael Bird, Dr. N.T. Wright, and Dr. Larry Hurtado about what we can say, based on historical evidence, about Jesus’ understanding of himself.
Chandler finds their proposals wanting. They are intended to be orthodox, or at least somehow to point in that direction, but it is not clear that they succeed, and their intelligible content, gleaned from the gospels, is what biblical unitarian Christians say: that Jesus understood himself to be a Jewish man who was the prophet and unique Messiah of the one true God, the God of Israel, the Creator.
“Are you the only stranger in Jerusalem who does not know the things that have taken place there in these days? . . . The things about Jesus of Nazareth, who was a prophet mighty in deed and word before God and all the people . . .”
Luke 25:18-19
Dr. Bird and Dr. Wright: the ball’s on your side of the court . . .
If you want to see his slides, here is the original video from the UCA YouTube channel.
Links for this episode:
Constantine and the Divine Mind: The Imperial Quest for Primitive Monotheism
The God of Jesus in Light of Christian Dogma
podcast 247 – Kegan Chandler on the term “homoousios”
Chandler @ the Restitutio podcast
podcast 281 – Introducing the Unitarian Christian Alliance
podcast 341 – Reflections on my debate with Dr. Andrew Loke
podcast 340 – Does the New Testament teach that Jesus is truly divine? – Loke vs. Tuggy – Part 2
podcast 339 – Does the New Testament teach that Jesus is truly divine? – Loke vs. Tuggy – Part 1
podcast 338 – What John 1 Meant
podcast 332 – Emlyn’s Humble Inquiry
podcast 323 – Did God die on the cross?
podcast 264 – Tuggy vs. Date debate – Jesus is human and not divine – Part 2
podcast 263 – Tuggy vs. Date debate – Jesus is human and not divine – Part 1
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