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Early Christian and Jewish Monotheism

Author : Loren T. Stuckenbruck
Publisher : A&C Black
ISBN 13 : 9780567082930
Total Pages : 278 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (829 download)

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Book Synopsis Early Christian and Jewish Monotheism by : Loren T. Stuckenbruck

Download or read book Early Christian and Jewish Monotheism written by Loren T. Stuckenbruck and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2004-05-27 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Early Christology must focus not simply on "historical" but also on theological ideas found in contemporary Jewish thought and practice. In this book, a range of distinguished contributors considers the context and formation of early Jewish and Christian devotion to God alone—the emergence of "monotheism". The idea of monotheism is critically examined from various perspectives, including the history of ideas, Graeco-Roman religions, early Jewish mediator figures, scripture exegesis, and the history of its use as a theological category. The studies explore different ways of conceiving of early Christian monotheism today, asking whether monotheism is a conceptually useful category, whether it may be applied cautiously and with qualifications, or whether it is to be questioned in favor of different approaches to understanding the origins of Jewish and Christian beliefs and worship. This is volume 1 in the Early Christianity in Context series and volume 263 in the Journal for the Study of the New Testament Supplement Series>

Early Jewish and Christian Monotheism

Author : Loren T. Stuckenbruck
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 0567429172
Total Pages : 273 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (674 download)

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Book Synopsis Early Jewish and Christian Monotheism by : Loren T. Stuckenbruck

Download or read book Early Jewish and Christian Monotheism written by Loren T. Stuckenbruck and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2004-05-01 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Early Christology must focus not simply on "historical" but also on theological ideas found in contemporary Jewish thought and practice. In this book, a range of distinguished contributors considers the context and formation of early Jewish and Christian devotion to God alone-the emergence of "monotheism". The idea of monotheism is critically examined from various perspectives, including the history of ideas, Graeco-Roman religions, early Jewish mediator figures, scripture exegesis, and the history of its use as a theological category. The studies explore different ways of conceiving of early Christian monotheism today, asking whether monotheism is a conceptually useful category, whether it may be applied cautiously and with qualifications, or whether it is to be questioned in favor of different approaches to understanding the origins of Jewish and Christian beliefs and worship. This is volume 1 in the Early Christianity in Context series and volume 263 in the Journal for the Study of the New Testament Supplement Series

The Only True God

Author : James F. McGrath
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
ISBN 13 : 0252091892
Total Pages : 171 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (52 download)

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Download or read book The Only True God written by James F. McGrath and published by University of Illinois Press. This book was released on 2022-08-15 with total page 171 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Monotheism is a powerful religious concept shaped by competing ideas and the problems they raised. Surveying New Testament writings and Jewish sources from before and after the rise of Christianity, James F. McGrath argues that even the most developed Christologies in the New Testament fit within the context of first century Jewish monotheism. McGrath pinpoints when the parting of ways took place over the issue of God's oneness, and explores philosophical ideas such as "creation out of nothing" which caused Jews and Christians to develop differing concepts and definitions about God.

Ancient Jewish Monotheism and Early Christian Jesus-devotion

Author : Larry W. Hurtado
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781481307628
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (76 download)

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Book Synopsis Ancient Jewish Monotheism and Early Christian Jesus-devotion by : Larry W. Hurtado

Download or read book Ancient Jewish Monotheism and Early Christian Jesus-devotion written by Larry W. Hurtado and published by . This book was released on 2017 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Quintessential Hurtado, this volume is a necessity for any attempt to understand the diversity of factors at play in the birth of Christianity.

One God, One Lord, New Edition

Author : Larry W. Hurtado
Publisher : A&C Black
ISBN 13 : 0567089878
Total Pages : 209 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (67 download)

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Book Synopsis One God, One Lord, New Edition by : Larry W. Hurtado

Download or read book One God, One Lord, New Edition written by Larry W. Hurtado and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2003-10-25 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The classic and ground-breaking work in Christology, with extensive new introduction, evaluating the most recent developments in current scholarship.

One God, One Lord

Author : Larry W. Hurtado
Publisher : Bloomsbury T & T Clark
ISBN 13 : 9780567665263
Total Pages : 250 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (652 download)

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Book Synopsis One God, One Lord by : Larry W. Hurtado

Download or read book One God, One Lord written by Larry W. Hurtado and published by Bloomsbury T & T Clark. This book was released on 2015 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Larry Hurtado's One God, One Lord has been described as 'one of the most important and provocative Christologies of all time' (Alan F. Segal). The book has taken its place among works on Jesus as one consistently cited, consistently read, and consistently examined in scholarly discourse. Hurtado examines the early cultic devotion to Jesus through a range of Jewish sources. Hurtado outlines an early 'high' Christological theology, showing how the Christ of faith emerges from monotheistic Judaism. The book has already found a home on the shelves of many in its two previous editions. In this ne.

The Jewish Roots of Christological Monotheism

Author : Carey C. Newman
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9789004113619
Total Pages : 404 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (136 download)

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Book Synopsis The Jewish Roots of Christological Monotheism by : Carey C. Newman

Download or read book The Jewish Roots of Christological Monotheism written by Carey C. Newman and published by BRILL. This book was released on 1999 with total page 404 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume investigates the Jewish cultural matrix that gave rise to the veneration of Jesus in the early Christianity. Specifically, this study examines Christian origins, the context of Jewish monotheism, Jewish divine mediator figures and the Christian practice of worshipping Jesus.

How on Earth Did Jesus Become a God?

Author : Larry W. Hurtado
Publisher : Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1467425044
Total Pages : 293 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (674 download)

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Book Synopsis How on Earth Did Jesus Become a God? by : Larry W. Hurtado

Download or read book How on Earth Did Jesus Become a God? written by Larry W. Hurtado and published by Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing. This book was released on 2005-11-02 with total page 293 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In How on Earth Did Jesus Become a God? Larry Hurtado investigates the intense devotion to Jesus that emerged with surprising speed after his death. Reverence for Jesus among early Christians, notes Hurtado, included both grand claims about Jesus' significance and a pattern of devotional practices that effectively treated him as divine. This book argues that whatever one makes of such devotion to Jesus, the subject deserves serious historical consideration. Mapping out the lively current debate about Jesus, Hurtado explains the evidence, issues, and positions at stake. He goes on to treat the opposition to -- and severe costs of -- worshiping Jesus, the history of incorporating such devotion into Jewish monotheism, and the role of religious experience in Christianity's development out of Judaism. The follow-up to Hurtado's award-winningLord Jesus Christ (2003), this book provides compelling answers to queries about the development of the church's belief in the divinity of Jesus.

Pagan Monotheism in Late Antiquity

Author : Polymnia Athanassiadi
Publisher : OUP Oxford
ISBN 13 : 0191541451
Total Pages : 221 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (915 download)

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Book Synopsis Pagan Monotheism in Late Antiquity by : Polymnia Athanassiadi

Download or read book Pagan Monotheism in Late Antiquity written by Polymnia Athanassiadi and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 1999-07-08 with total page 221 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this book distinguished experts from a range of disciplines (Orientalists, philologists, philosophers, theologians and historians) address a central problem which lies at the heart of the religious and philosophical debate of late antiquity. Paganism was not a unified tradition and consequently the papers cover a wide social and intellectual spectrum. Particular emphasis is given to several aspects of the topic: first, monotheistic belief in late antique philosophical ideals and its roots in classical antiquity and the Near East; second, monistic Gnosticism; third, the revelatory tradition as expressed in oracular literature; and finally, the monotheistic trend in popular religion.

Did the First Christians Worship Jesus?

Author : James D. G. Dunn
Publisher : Westminster John Knox Press
ISBN 13 : 1611640709
Total Pages : 176 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (116 download)

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Book Synopsis Did the First Christians Worship Jesus? by : James D. G. Dunn

Download or read book Did the First Christians Worship Jesus? written by James D. G. Dunn and published by Westminster John Knox Press. This book was released on 2010-07-15 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: To answer the title question effectively requires more than the citing of a few texts; we must first acknowledge that the way to the answer is more difficult than it appears and recognize that the answer may be less straightforward than many would like. The author raises some fascinating yet vexing questions: What is worship? Is the fact that worship is offered to God (or a god) what defines him (or her) as "G/god?" What does the act of worship actually involve? The conviction that God exalted Jesus to his right hand obviously is central to Christian recognition of the divine status of Jesus. But what did that mean for the first Christians as they sought to reconcile God's status and that of the human Jesus? Perhaps the worship of Jesus was not an alternative to worship of God but another way of worshiping God. The questions are challenging but readers are ably guided by James Dunn, one of the world's top New Testament scholars.

God Crucified

Author : Richard Bauckham
Publisher : Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9780802846426
Total Pages : 94 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (464 download)

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Book Synopsis God Crucified by : Richard Bauckham

Download or read book God Crucified written by Richard Bauckham and published by Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing. This book was released on 1999 with total page 94 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: God Crucified presents a new proposal for understanding New Testament Christology in its Jewish context. Using the latest scholarly discussion about the nature of Jewish monotheism as his starting point, Richard Bauckham builds a convincing argument that the early Christian view of Jesus' divinity is fully consistent with the Jewish understanding of God. Bauckham first shows that early Judaism had clear ways of distinguishing God absolutely from all other reality. When New Testament Christology is read with this Jewish context in mind, it becomes clear that early Christians did not break with Jewish monotheism; rather, they simply included Jesus within the unique identity of Israel's God. In the final part of the book Bauckham shows that God's own identity, in turn, is also revealed in the life, death, and exaltation of Jesus. Originating as the prestigious 1996 Didsbury Lectures, this volume makes a contribution to biblical studies that will be of interest to Jews and Christians alike.

One God, One Lord, New Edition

Author : Larry W. Hurtado
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 0567350274
Total Pages : 209 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (673 download)

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Book Synopsis One God, One Lord, New Edition by : Larry W. Hurtado

Download or read book One God, One Lord, New Edition written by Larry W. Hurtado and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2003-08-25 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The classic and ground-breaking work in Christology, with extensive new introduction, evaluating the most recent developments in current scholarship.

Jews, Christians, Muslims

Author : John Corrigan
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317347005
Total Pages : 408 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (173 download)

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Download or read book Jews, Christians, Muslims written by John Corrigan and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-01-08 with total page 408 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Thematic examination of monotheistic religions The second edition of Jews, Christians, Muslims: A Comparative Introduction to Monotheistic Religions, compares Judaism, Christianity, and Islam using seven common themes which are equally relevant to each tradition. Provoking critical thinking, this text addresses the cultural framework of religious meanings and explores the similarities and differences among Judaism, Christianity, and Islam as it explains the ongoing process of interpretation in each religion. The book is designed for courses in Western and World Religions.

Destroyer of the Gods

Author : Larry W. Hurtado
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781481304757
Total Pages : 290 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (47 download)

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Download or read book Destroyer of the Gods written by Larry W. Hurtado and published by . This book was released on 2016 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Silly," "stupid," "irrational," "simple." "Wicked," "hateful," "obstinate," "anti-social." "Extravagant," "perverse." The Roman world rendered harsh judgments upon early Christianity--including branding Christianity "new." Novelty was no Roman religious virtue. Nevertheless, as Larry W. Hurtado shows in Destroyer of the gods, Christianity thrived despite its new and distinctive features and opposition to them. Unlike nearly all other religious groups, Christianity utterly rejected the traditional gods of the Roman world. Christianity also offered a new and different kind of religious identity, one not based on ethnicity. Christianity was distinctively a "bookish" religion, with the production, copying, distribution, and reading of texts as central to its faith, even preferring a distinctive book-form, the codex. Christianity insisted that its adherents behave differently: unlike the simple ritual observances characteristic of the pagan religious environment, embracing Christian faith meant a behavioral transformation, with particular and novel ethical demands for men. Unquestionably, to the Roman world, Christianity was both new and different, and, to a good many, it threatened social and religious conventions of the day. In the rejection of the gods and in the centrality of texts, early Christianity obviously reflected commitments inherited from its Jewish origins. But these particular features were no longer identified with Jewish ethnicity and early Christianity quickly became aggressively trans-ethnic--a novel kind of religious movement. Its ethical teaching, too, bore some resemblance to the philosophers of the day, yet in contrast with these great teachers and their small circles of dedicated students, early Christianity laid its hard demands upon all adherents from the moment of conversion, producing a novel social project. Christianity's novelty was no badge of honor. Called atheists and suspected of political subversion, Christians earned Roman disdain and suspicion in equal amounts. Yet, as Destroyer of the gods demonstrates, in an irony of history the very features of early Christianity that rendered it distinctive and objectionable in Roman eyes have now become so commonplace in Western culture as to go unnoticed. Christianity helped destroy one world and create another.

Monotheism and Christology in Greco-Roman Antiquity

Author :
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004438084
Total Pages : 373 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (44 download)

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Download or read book Monotheism and Christology in Greco-Roman Antiquity written by and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2020-08-25 with total page 373 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Matthew V. Novenson, ed., Monotheism and Christology in Greco-Roman Antiquity is a collection of state-of-the-art essays by leading scholars on views of God, Christ, and other divine beings in ancient Jewish, Christian, and classical texts.

The Idea of Monotheism

Author : Jack Shechter
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780761870432
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (74 download)

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Download or read book The Idea of Monotheism written by Jack Shechter and published by . This book was released on 2018 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jack Shechter explores the idea of monotheism as it has evolved over the centuries: the belief in the existence of the One God who fashioned the world and remains involved in it and with humanity and its values.

Jesus Monotheism

Author : Crispin Fletcher-Louis
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1620328895
Total Pages : 389 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (23 download)

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Download or read book Jesus Monotheism written by Crispin Fletcher-Louis and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2015-07-29 with total page 389 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the first of a four-volume groundbreaking study of Christological origins. The fruit of twenty years research, Jesus Monotheism lays out a new paradigm that goes beyond the now widely held view that Paul and others held to an unprecedented "Christological monotheism." There was already, in Second Temple Judaism and in the Bible, a kind of "christological monotheism." But it is first with Jesus and his followers that a human figure is included in the identity of the one God as a fully divine person. Volume 1 lays out the arguments of an emerging consensus, championed by Larry Hurtado and Richard Bauckham, that from its Jewish beginnings the Christian community had a high Christology and worshipped Jesus as a divine figure. New data is adduced to support that case. But there are weaknesses in the emerging consensus. For example, it underplays the incarnation and does not convincingly explain what caused the earliest Christology. The recent study of Adam traditions, the findings of Enoch literature specialists, and of those who have explored a Jewish and Christian debt to Greco-Roman Ruler Cult traditions, all point towards a fresh approach to both the origins and shape of the earliest divine Christology.