{"id":40843,"date":"2018-12-19T05:52:42","date_gmt":"2018-12-19T10:52:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/trinities.org\/blog\/?p=40843"},"modified":"2018-12-17T15:13:41","modified_gmt":"2018-12-17T20:13:41","slug":"dunn-on-jesus-as-kyrios-lord-in-the-new-testament","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/trinities.org\/blog\/dunn-on-jesus-as-kyrios-lord-in-the-new-testament\/","title":{"rendered":"Dunn on Jesus as kyrios (“Lord”) in the New Testament"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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… <\/strong>kyrios <\/strong><\/em>is a title which in several passages, particularly in Paul, carries heavy overtones of divinity<\/strong>. As is well known, Paul refers several OT passages which speak of kyrios <\/em>Yahweh to kyrios <\/em>Christ \u2014 notably Rom. 10: 13, “Everyone who calls upon the name of the Lord (Yahweh, Christ) will be saved”(Joel 2:32), and Phil. 2:10, where Second Isaiah’s fiercely monotheistic assertion of universal worship to Yahweh becomes an assertion of universal worship to Christ (Isa. 45:21-23).75 However, the problem which this causes for monotheism is eased as soon as we realize that for Paul the <\/strong>kyrios <\/strong><\/em>title functions most often as a way of distinguishing Christ from the one God<\/strong>. This we see clearly in the repeated phrase “the God <\/em>and Father of <\/em>our Lord <\/em>Jesus Christ” (Rom. 15:6; 2 Cor. 1:3, 11:31; Eph. 1:3, 17; Col. 1:3); also in 1 Cor. 8:6,where Christ is professed as one Lord alongside the Shema’s profession of the one God; and most notably in 1 Cor. 15:24-28, where Christ’s lordship in terms both of Ps. 110:1 and Ps. 8:6 climaxes in the Son’s own subjection to God the Father, “that God may be all in all. ” Even the Philippians hymn must be mentioned here; for in my judgment it is an expression of Adam christology, so that Phil. 2:10 is best seen as a confession of Christ’s lordship as (last)Adam, where, Paul makes it plain, all creation acknowledges Christ’s lordship “to the glory of God the Father”<\/strong> (2:11). <\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

It would seem then that Adam and kyrios <\/em>christology as statements of Christ’s cosmic lordship are best understood, not as any sort of threat to the unity of God or as a diffusion of the one God’s sovereignty over creation, but rather in terms of God’s purpose to share his authority as Creator with humanity, the crown of his creation, the image of God destined from the first to share in his fuller glory. In short, the exalted Christ is Lord over all <\/strong>(perhaps even “god overall” \u2014 Rom. 9:5) not so much as a right of godhood, more as an authority given by God<\/strong> to the firstborn of a new race of resurrected humanity, not only as representing God before humankind but also as representing humankind before God. <\/p>
James Dunn, “Was Christianity a Monotheistic Faith from the Beginning?” in his The Christ and the Spirit, Volume 1: Christology<\/em>, 315-344, pp. 337-8, bold emphases added.
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