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Who do men say I am?
  • The modern debate on Christology

2
Finding the Historical Jesus
  • Hermann Reimarus 1694-1768
  • Assumption that divine claims were a later
    development
  • A moralist and religious reformer crucified for
    thinking ahead of his time
  • Albert Schweitzer An apocalyptic prophet

3
Statement of the Orthodox view
  • H.P.Liddon 1866
  • The Divinity of our Lord and Saviour Jesus
    Christ And a reaction
  • W.Bousset 1900
  • Kyrios Christi A developing Christology

4
The two views
  • Christology from above (docetism?)
  • Christology from below (adoptionism?)
  • Is there a third way?

5
The myth of Jesus of Nazareth
  • Rudolf Bultmann (1884-1976)
  • Myth cannot be treated as historical fact but
    as symbolical truth
  • The importance of existential decision

6
Three Alternate views
  • 1. A quasi-orthodox view P.T.Forsyth,
    D.M.Baillie (c1920)
  • The evidence we have for the historical Jesus
    adds up to credible proof for his divinity
  • 2. Oscar Cullmann (1902-1999), Ferdinand Hahn
    stressed the christological titles which the NT
    applies to Jesus.
  • The gospel writers were using mythical concepts
    to describe historical facts
  • 3. Martin Hengel, Wolfhart Pannenberg reasserted
    the historicity of the gospels

7
Hahn From Jesus to Paul
8
The titles of Jesus
9
R.H.Fuller
  • Foundations of NT Christology (1965)
  • What did Jesus think about himself?
  • Early Church Christology
  • 1.Earthly life of Jesus and his parousia
  • 2.Earthly ministry/ heavenly reign
  • 3.Pre-existence/ incarnate life/ heavenly reign
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