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.
Crispin Fletcher-Louis, Jesus Monotheism: Christological Origins: The Emerging Consensus and Beyond, vol. 1 (Eugene, OR: Whymanity Publishing, 2019).
Fresh Support for the Emerging Consensus
The Shape of New Testament Christology
The Origins of New Testament Christology
Excursus 1: Theological Problems Posed By The Emerging Consensus
The Similitudes of Enoch and a Jewish Divine Messiah
The King, the Messiah, and the Ruler Cult