BIBLIOGRAPHIC DATA:
Author(s): Richard Bauckham
Title and subtitle: God Crucified: Monotheism and Christology in the New Testament
Publisher: Eerdmans
Place: Grand Rapids, MI
Date: 1998
INTERPRETATION:
Kind of Book: Theoretical
Subject Matter: New Testament
Problems Attempted to Solve:
- Challenging the “standard” accounts of a progression from low to high christology in the New Testament and then in the early Church.
- “I argue that recent trends to find a model for Christology in semi-divine intermediary figures in early Judaism are largely mistaken” (vii)
Summary (What is the book about as a whole?):
- “The earliest Christology was already the highest Christology” (viii)
Outline of Source:
- Understanding Early Jewish Monotheism (1)
- Early Jewish monotheism and New Testament Christology in recent discussion
- Second Temple Judaism as self-consciously monotheistic
- The unique identity of God in jewish monotheism
- Christological Monotheism in the New Testament (25)
- God Crucified: The Divine Identity Revealed in Jesus (45)
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