Honoring the Son : Jesus in earliest Christian devotional practice / Larry W. Hurtado
Series: Snapshots | Snapshots (Bellingham, Wash.)Publication details: Bellingham, WA : Lexham, 2018.Description: xiv, 95 pages ; 20 cmISBN:- 9781683590965
- 1683590961
- Jesus in earliest Christian devotional practice
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BT198 G87 1995 v.II Christ in Christian tradition / | BT198 G87c v. II.1 Christ in Christian tradition : | BT198 H16 2007 The coming of the impassible God : | BT198 H94 2018 Honoring the Son : | BT198 H94l 2003 Lord Jesus Christ : | BT198 J49 2011 Jesus, Paul, and the people of God : a theological dialogue with N. T. Wright / | BT198 J62c Consider Jesus : |
Series editor: Michael F. Bird
Includes bibliographical references and indexes
Introduction -- Worship in the ancient world -- Ancient Jewish monotheism -- The early Christian "mutation" -- Jesus in earliest Christian devotional practice
Before the New Testament or the creeds of the church were written, the devotional practices of the earliest Christians indicate that they worshipped Jesus alongside the Father. 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