How did Jesus become a God?
Larry Hurtado has a well deserved reputation for his excellent work on the origins on Christian worship. As such, he has also made a welcome contribution to the debates over Christology in the earliest church. Happily, thanks to St John’s Nottingham, he can speak for himself.
Q and the Historical Jesus
A good example of current work on the Historical Jesus can be found at the Thoughts on Antiquity site, and in particular the short, ongoing series on Q by Chris Zeichmann.
I mention this as it is interesting to see the thought processes and methods behind this strand of New Testament work, regardless of your confidence in attempts to reconstruct a Christ who does not reflect current sensibilities!
Ancient Rome in 3D
The Roman Empire is clearly an important background to not only the New Testament but also Early Christianity. Google Earth have added a new Ancient Rome layer, and it’s good!
Go find out more by looking here and here.
Bultmann and the Jesus Seminar
For Dan:
You can find out more about the Jesus Seminar on their site and there is a site dedicated to the output of N T Wright called, unsurprisingly, the N T Wright Page. For more on Marcus Borg visit A Portrait of Jesus.
The ‘morphing’ Jesus is here.
Alexandria and Antioch
Some sources to help you get your head around these two schools of thought:
- Two ‘Schools’: Alexandria and Antioch
- The Christological Controversy Area
- Athanasius: on the incarnation
Chalcedon Wordle
It seems to me that Wordle is one of the net tools which could be useful in worship. If you were to use the image above for meditation you would become suffused with the Statement of Chalcedon on the definition of Christ.
Christological Controversy Study Area
There is a useful collection of texts on the early Christological debates over on Monachos.net. You can get an overview at the Christological Controversy Study Area.