New Testament Christology: A Critique of Hurtado’s Influence

This article offers a critique of one of the most crucial and controversial pillars of Larry W. Hurtado’s reconstruction of the origins and nature of earliest "Jesus ­devotion." Unlike most other engagements with Hurtado, this article takes seriously into account all of his published work...

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Main Author: Kugler, Chris (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Eisenbrauns 2020
In: Bulletin for biblical research
Year: 2020, Volume: 30, Issue: 3, Pages: 367-378
Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains:B Christology / New Testament / Hurtado, Larry W. 1943-
IxTheo Classification:HC New Testament
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Summary:This article offers a critique of one of the most crucial and controversial pillars of Larry W. Hurtado’s reconstruction of the origins and nature of earliest "Jesus ­devotion." Unlike most other engagements with Hurtado, this article takes seriously into account all of his published work and not simply his magnum opus, Lord Jesus Christ. Likewise, unlike most other engagements, this article critically focuses on the explanatory relationship between Hurtado’s minimalist account of the Christology of Jesus and his earliest disciples and the postulation that powerful Easter and post-Easter "religious experiences" played the key role in the origins of Jesus devotion. Essentially, this article contends that Hurtado’s persuasive case concerning the very early origins of Jesus devotion (perhaps, so he argues, to be dated as early as the first few months of the post-Easter period) ought to have pushed his search for the major causes of such devotion back beyond the "religious experiences" of post-Easter Christians and into the life of the historical Jesus himself.
ISSN:2576-0998
Contains:Enthalten in: Bulletin for biblical research
Persistent identifiers:DOI: 10.5325/bullbiblrese.30.3.0367