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In how the heck Did Jesus develop into a God? Larry Hurtado investigates the serious devotion to Jesus that emerged with incredible pace after his loss of life. Reverence for Jesus between early Christians, notes Hurtado, incorporated either grand claims approximately Jesus importance and a trend of devotional practices that successfully handled him as divine. This publication argues that no matter what one makes of such devotion to Jesus, the topic merits critical old attention. Mapping out the full of life present debate approximately Jesus, Hurtado explains the proof, concerns, and positions at stake. He is going directly to deal with the competition to - and critical charges of - worshiping Jesus, the historical past of incorporating such devotion into Jewish monotheism, and the function of non secular event in Christianitys improvement out of Judaism. The follow-up to Hurtados award-winning Lord Jesus Christ (2003), this publication offers compelling solutions to queries concerning the improvement of the churchs trust within the divinity of Jesus.
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It is also important to note that after his conversion Paul never indicates that the devotional claims and practices that he affirms and reflects in his letters represent anything innovative from him. , ι Cor. 15:1-11). So there is really 110 basis for thinking either that Paul was particularly responsible for inventing the view that Jesus is to be reverenced as divine, or that this view of Jesus distinguished the churches that he established. In fact, all the evidence points to the opposite conclusion: that the devotion to Jesus that Paul affirms in his letters was manifest already in the very earliest circles of Jewish Christians, including those of the very first years (perhaps months) in Roman Judea.
1:2). So, instead of an evolutionary/incremental model, we have to think in terms of something more adequate. What we have suggested in the evidence is a more explosively quick phenomenon, a religious development that was more like a volcanic eruption. Moreover, as I have emphasized already, the worship of Jesus is both remarkable and without real analogy in the ancient setting, and so requires particular effort to deal with it as a historical phenomenon. Certainly, various deities were reverenced in the Roman period, and it was in principle no problem to enfranchise another divine figure in the religious "cafeteria" of the time.
5 These letters form part 2. See esp. Larry W. , London: T&T Clark, 2003). 3. In his stimulating book Rebecca's Children: Judaism and Christianity in the Roman World (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1986), Alan F. Segal explores more broadly the origins of rabbinic Judaism and Christianity as "sibling" movements developing out of the biblical/Jewish tradition of the early Roman period. 4. Martin Hengel, "Christologie u n d neutestamentliche Chronologie," in Neues Testament und Geschichte, Festschrift Ο.