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Haight, Jesus, Symbol of God. How is the divine Jesus [of Orthodoxy] related to the transcendent God of monotheistic faith? From a historical perspective one can […]

by Heikki Räisänen, chapter 6. Taken at face value, [Mark 7.15] looks like a radical if implicit attack on important parts of the Torah. If nothing […]

by Loofs, p 188f. For it is quite plain that the beginning of John’s Gospel refers to the beginning of the first book of Moses. There […]

by Forbes, pp 45-6. BORROWING AND SHARING One of several competing legends about the origin of the Christmas tree centers on Boniface, an English Benedictine monk […]

Paul neither calls [Jesus] God, nor identifies him anywhere with God. It is true he does God’s work; he is certainly God’s special supernatural agent, who […]

From: A Commentary on Peter and Jude by Kelly, p 255. Some critics favour ‘Jesus’ [in Jude 5] pointing to the eagerness of Christian writers even […]

From Did the First Christians Worship Jesus? pages 117-123 Prior to John logos (“word,” a masculine noun) is personalized but not genderized (i.e., ‘he,’ ‘his’). The […]

British historian William Winwood Reade, The Martyrdom of Man, p 235. The church diverged in discipline and dogma more and more widely from its ancient form, […]

Did the First Christians Worship Jesus? by James Dunn. A persistent theme of [Hurtado’s, One God, One Lord] is that, though the language used to speak […]

What does the Bible mean by the word “god” [Heb. elohim; Gk. theos]? First, the plural ending of the Hebrew word for “god,” elohim, is traditionally […]

Incarnation: The Person and Life of Christ, Thomas F. Torrance. Here we have a verse, not recognized often enough, where explicit mention is made of the […]

by Gerard Sigal In a unique ontological defining moment, God explains the meaning of His Name. In so doing, we get an insight into the ontological […]