Jesus Among the Gods: Early Christology in the Greco-Roman World Bird Michael F.
Jesus Among the Gods: Early Christology in the Greco-Roman World Bird Michael F. After several centuries of controversy, the early church came to an uneasy consensus that Jesus was both fully human…
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Jesus Among the Gods: Early Christology in the Greco-Roman World Bird Michael F.
After several centuries of controversy, the early church came to an uneasy consensus that Jesus was both fully human and fully divine. But was this doctrinal position crafted from whole cloth in the era of the great ecumenical councils? In his divinity, orthodox Christianity claimed, he shared fully in the nature of the uncreated creator God.
Most studies of the origins of early Christology focus on christological titles, various functions, divine identity, and types of worship. How did earlier Christ-followers understand Jesus in light of their convictions about the one supreme deity and in the context of a cultural milieu saturated with gods?In Jesus among the gods, Michael Bird gives renewed attention to divine ontology--what a god is--in relation to literary representations of Jesus. The application of ontological categories to Jesus is normally considered something
Romans Bird Michael F.