These podcasts discuss early Christology within New Testament studies. They map out the current state of scholarship as the context for the new paradigm. It has two main aims. On the one hand, it sets out the convincing arguments of Larry Hurtado and Richard Bauckham for an early high Christology. On the other hand, it explores the ways in which Hurtado and Bauckham (and the others in what I call the “emerging consensus”) are unable to account satisfactorily for some of the hard data of the primary sources. That data, especially some non-Christian Jewish material which the emerging consensus scholars have not treated adequately, points towards a new approach.
Excerpts from Richard Bauckham, Jesus and the God of Israel: God Crucified and Other Essays on the New Testament’s Christology of Divine Identity (Paternoster, 2008).
Christological Monotheism in the New Testament
Second Temple Jewish Monotheism and its Relation to New Testament Christology
The ‘Most High’ God In Early Jewish Monotheism
The Throne of God and the Worship of Jesus
The Divinity Of Jesus In The Letter To The Hebrews
Review of Dunn's Book “Did the First Christians Worship Jesus?”