Lord Jesus Christ Hurtado
Posted on Thursday, October 23, 2008 in Uncategorized
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Lord Jesus Christ: Devotion to Jesus in Earliest Christianity $23.39 This outstanding book provides an in-depth historical study of the place of Jesus in the religious life, beliefs, and worship of Christians from the beginnings of the Christian movement down to the late second century. Lord Jesus Christ is a monumental work on earliest Christian devotion to Jesus, sure to replace Wilhelm BoussetÂ’s Kyrios Christos (1913) as the standard work on the subject. Larry … |
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Did the First Christians Worship Jesus?: The New Testament Evidence $12.38 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 (… |
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How on Earth Did Jesus Become a God?: Historical Questions about Earliest Devotion to Jesus $14.69 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 J… |
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