The Epistle of James vs. Evolutionary Christology
So-called ‘evolutionary’ approaches to a ‘High Christology’ posit that belief in the divinity of Jesus only arose after a long period of time, somewhere between the early second and fourth centuries AD. Contrary to these ‘evolutionary’ theories, I argue that archaeological evidence demonstrates that a High Christology existed in the early third century and that various New Testament letters evince a High Christology in the middle of the first century AD. In particular, I argue that the Epistle of James demonstrates the existence of a High Christology within a monotheistic Jewish context before the Jewish War, plausibly as early as ten to fifteen years after the crucifixion.
Publisert i Theofilos, 2016
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