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Angel Veneration and Christology - A Study in Early Judaism and in the Christology of the Apocalypse of John (Paperback)
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Angel Veneration and Christology - A Study in Early Judaism and in the Christology of the Apocalypse of John (Paperback)
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The public worship of the risen Christ as depicted in John's
Apocalypse directly contradicts the guidingangel's emphasis that
only God should be worshiped (Revelation 19:10; 22:8-9). In Angel
Veneration and Christology , Loren Stuckenbruck explores this
contradiction in light of angelveneration in Early Judaism.
Stuckenbruck surveys a wide variety of Jewish traditions related to
angelic worship and discovers proscriptions against sacrificing
toangels; prohibitions against making images ofangels; rejections
of the "two powers"; second-century Christian apologetic
accusations specifically directed against Jews; and, most
importantly, the refusal tradition, widespread in Jewish and
Jewish-Christian writings, wherein angelic messengers refuse the
veneration of the seer and exhort the worship of God alone. While
evidence forthe practice of angelvenerationamong Jews of antiquity
(Qumran, pseudepigraphal literature, and inscriptions from Asia
Minor) does not furnish the immediate background for the worship of
Christ, Stuckenbruck demonstrates that the very fact that
safeguards to a monotheistic framework were issued at all throws
light on the Christian practice of worshiping Jesus. The way the
Apocalypse adapts the refusal tradition illuminates Revelation's
declarations about and depictions of Jesus. Though the refusal
tradition itself only safeguards the worship of God, Stuckenbruck
traces how the tradition has been split so that the angelophanic
elements were absorbed into the christophany. As Stuckenbruck
shows, an angelomorphicChristology, shared by the author of
Revelation and its readers, functions to preserve the author's
monotheistic emphasis as well as to emphasize Christ's superiority
over theangelsasetting the stage for the worship of the Lamb in a
monotheistic framework that does not contradict the angelic
directive to worship God alone.
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