CALEB BRAKE

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1 Corinthians 8:6

2 summaries engaging 1 Corinthians 8:6 — with full scholarly citation.

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Christian Origins Christology Resurrection

Andrew Ter Ern Loke  ·  2023

Studies on the Origin of Divine and Resurrection Christology

Within years of Jesus's crucifixion, his earliest followers in Jerusalem were already worshiping him as divine. This was no slow drift. Something happened — and that something needs to be explained. That, in compressed form, is the project of Andrew Ter Ern Loke, a theologian at Hong Kong Baptist University.…

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Christian Origins Christology Worship

Larry W. Hurtado  ·  2005

How on Earth Did Jesus Become a God?

Devotion to Jesus as divine did not develop slowly. It erupted within the first years of the Christian movement, inside circles of Jewish believers fiercely committed to the worship of one God. This is the central claim of Larry W. Hurtado, a New Testament historian at the University of Edinburgh.…

30 citations 36 sources 37 scholars
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