There’s a long-standing scholarly debate about how early Christians viewed Jesus’s identity. Was he merely a righteous man? Was he a man “exalted” to a divine status? Or did they think he was really God in the flesh?
In this second of a two-part session from TGC25 (watch part 1), Michael Kruger explores the Christology of the earliest Christian movement, drawing on both New Testament texts and second-century patristic sources.
These historical sources indicate that the full divinity of Jesus wasn’t the creation of a fourth-century church council but a fundamental belief of Christians from the beginning.
In This Episode
00:08 – The scholarly debate on Jesus
08:22 – Jesus as God in the New Testament
11:22 – Pauline evidence for high Christology
11:35 – Monotheism and 1 Corinthians
25:10 – Worship in second-century Christianity
31:42 – Early scribal traditions and names
Resources Mentioned:
Christianity at the Crossroads by Michael J. Kruger
The Epistle to Diognetus
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