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Gain Insights on Mark's Christology from Today's Leading Scholars
The Gospel of Mark, widely assumed to be the earliest narrative of
Jesus's life and the least explicit in terms of Christology, has
long served as a worktable for the discovery of Christian origins
and developing theologies. The past ten years of scholarship have
seen an unprecedented shift toward an early, high Christology, the
notion that very early in the history of the Jesus movement his
followers worshipped him as God. Other studies have challenged this
view, arguing that Mark's story is incomplete, intentionally
ambiguous, or presents Jesus in entirely human terms. Christology
in Mark's Gospel: Four Views brings together key voices in
conversation in order to offer a clear entry point into early
Christians' understanding of Jesus's identity: Sandra Huebenthal
(Suspended Christology), Larry W. Hurtado (Mark's Presentation of
Jesus; with rejoinder by Chris Keith), J. R. Daniel Kirk (Narrative
Christology of a Suffering King), and Adam Winn (Jesus as the YHWH
of Israel in the Gospel of Mark). Each author offers a robust
presentation of their position, followed by lively interaction with
the other contributors and one "last-word" rejoinder. The
significance of this discussion is contextualized by the general
editor Anthony Le Donne's introduction and summarized in the
conclusion. The CriticalPoints Series offers rigorous and nuanced
engagement between today's best scholars for advancing the
scholarship of tomorrow. Like its older sibling, the CounterPoints
Series, it provides a forum for comparison and critique of
different positions, focusing on critical issues in today's
Christian scholarship: in biblical studies, in theology, and in
philosophy.
Larry W. Hurtado has been one of the leading scholars on early
Christology for decades. In Honoring the Son: Jesus in Earliest
Christian Devotional Practice, Hurtado helps readers understand
early Christology by examining not just what early Christians
believed or wrote about Jesus, but what their devotional practices
tell us about the place of Jesus in early Christian worship.
Drawing on his extensive knowledge of early Christian origins and
scholarship on New Testament Christology, Hurtado examines the
distinctiveness of early Christian worship by comparing it to both
Jewish worship patterns and worship practices within the broader
Roman--era religious environment. He argues that the inclusion of
the risen Jesus alongside the Father in early Christian devotional
practices was a distinct and unique religious phenomenon within its
ancient context. Additionally, Hurtado demonstrates that this
remarkable development was not invented decades after the
resurrection of Christ as some scholars once claimed. Instead, the
New Testament suggests that Jesus--followers, very quickly after
the resurrection of Christ, began to worship the Son alongside the
Father. Honoring the Son offers a look into the worship habits of
the earliest Christians to understand the place of Jesus in early
Christian devotion.
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