Book contents
- The Cambridge Companion to Christology
- Cambridge Companions to Religion
- The Cambridge Companion to Christology
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Contributors
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- Part I The Christological Sources
- 1 Christology in the Old Testament/Hebrew Bible
- 2 Christology in the New Testament: Gospels and Acts
- 3 Christology in the New Testament: Epistles and Revelation
- 4 Christology in the Ecumenical Councils
- Part II The Christological Reception
- Part III The Contemporary Christological Discussions
- Bibliography
- Index
- Cambridge Companions To Religion … (continued from page ii)
- References
2 - Christology in the New Testament: Gospels and Acts
from Part I - The Christological Sources
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 15 September 2025
Book contents
- The Cambridge Companion to Christology
- Cambridge Companions to Religion
- The Cambridge Companion to Christology
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Contributors
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- Part I The Christological Sources
- 1 Christology in the Old Testament/Hebrew Bible
- 2 Christology in the New Testament: Gospels and Acts
- 3 Christology in the New Testament: Epistles and Revelation
- 4 Christology in the Ecumenical Councils
- Part II The Christological Reception
- Part III The Contemporary Christological Discussions
- Bibliography
- Index
- Cambridge Companions To Religion … (continued from page ii)
- References
Summary
The chapter begins with an overview of Christology in the history of New Testament scholarship. It next turns to the portrayal of Jesus’s divinity and relationship to God in the Gospels and Acts. The chapter then concludes by exploring how a reframing of our understanding of divinity, especially in terms of “divine fluidity,” can provide a pathway forward to the question of Jesus’s own divinity in the Gospels and Acts, as well as the New Testament more broadly.
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- The Cambridge Companion to Christology , pp. 27 - 44Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2025
References
Further Suggested Readings
Boyarin, Daniel. The Jewish Gospels: The Story of the Jewish Christ. New York City, NY, 2012.10.2307/jj.32047609CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Hurtado, Larry W. How on Earth Did Jesus Become God? Historical Questions about Earliest Devotion to Jesus. Grand Rapids, MI, 2005.Google Scholar
Peppard, Michael. The Son of God in the Roman World: Divine Sonship in Its Social and Political Context. Oxford, 2012.Google Scholar
Porter, Stanley E. and Dyer, Bryan R.. Origins of New Testament Christology: An Introduction to the Traditions and Titles Applied to Jesus. Grand Rapids, MI, 2023.Google Scholar
Wilson, Brittany E. The Embodied God: Seeing the Divine in Luke-Acts and the Early Church. New York City, NY, 2021.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
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