NT050-712 - New Testament Christology

  • 2,784 Standard Tuition Fee
  • 12
    Credit Points
  • 0.125 EFT 
  • 7
    AQF level
  • Category developing unit
    B
  • new testamentUnit Discipline

Prerequisites

24cps NT (NT001 and NT002)

Learning outcomes

On successful completion of this unit, students will

A. Know and understand

Demonstrate Functional knowledge and understanding of the Christologies in select New Testament writings.

B. Be able to

1. Discuss recent scholarship in the interpretation of the Christologies in select New Testament writings for contemporary Christian living and thought.
2. Demonstrate skill in utilising scholarship in interpreting the Christologies in select New Testament writings for contemporary Christian living and thought.
3. Present Critical evidence-based perspectives in interpreting the Christologies of select New Testament writings for Christian living and thought.

C. Be in a position to

Applying Functional perspectives and skills from ‘New Testament Christology’ for ministry practice and Christian living as a reflective praticioner.

Content

Section A: Graeco-Roman and Second Temple Jewish Concepts of Divinity (25%)
   1. Common religious beliefs and ritual practices relating to divine beings in the Graeco-Roman world and philosophical discourses on the nature of divinity.
   2. Second Temple Jewish conceptions of “monotheism” and intermediary agents (e.g., divine hypostases; principal angels; messianic figures including rulers, priests, or prophets).

Section B: Christologies in the New Testament (75%)
   1. The Historical Jesus and Christology
   2. Pre-Pauline Christology (e.g., creeds, hymns, worship or ritual practices, the sermons attributed to leaders of the Jerusalem Church in the book of Acts).
   3. Pauline Christology
   4. Synoptic Christology
   5. Johannine Christology
   6. Systematic theological reflection on the diverse Christologies in the New Testament

Set Readings

This unit's indicative bibliography is currently being revised. Students should contact their home college for further details at the time of taking this unit.


1. Bartlett, David L. Christology in the New Testament. Nashville: Abingdon, 2017.
2. Bauckham, Richard. God Crucified: Monotheism and Christology in the New Testament. Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1998.
3. Bird, Michael F. et al. How God became Jesus: The Real Origins of Belief in Jesus’ Divine Nature. Grand Rapids: Zondervan, 2014.
4. Boyarin, Daniel. The Jewish Gospels: The Story of the Jewish Christ. New York: New Press, 2012.
5. Brown, Raymond. An Introduction to New Testament Christology. New York: Paulinist, 1994.
6. Dunn, James. Did the First Christians Worship Jesus? The New Testament Evidence. London: Westminster John Knox, 2010.
7. Ehrman, Bart D. How Jesus became God: The Exaltation of a Jewish Preacher from Galilee. New York: HarperOne, 2014.
8. Fredriksen, Paula. From Jesus to Christ: The Origins of the New Testament Images of Christ. Second Edition. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2000.
9. Hurtado, Larry W. Honouring the Son: Jesus in Earliest Christian Devotional Practice. Bellingham: Lexham Press, 2018.
10. Jonge, Marinus de. Christology in Context: The Earliest Christian Response to Jesus. Philadelphia: Westminster, 1989.
11. Matera, Frank. New Testament Christology. Louisville: Westminster John Knox, 1999.
12. McGrath, James F. The One True God: Early Christian Monotheism in its Jewish Context. Urbana and Chicago: University of Illinois Press, 2009.
13. Neyrey, Jerome H. Christ Is Community: The Christologies of the New Testament. Wilmington: Glazier, 1985.
14. Powell, Mark Allan, and Bauer, David R. Editors. Who Do You Say That I Am? Essays on Christology. Louisville: Westminster John Knox, 1999.
15. Tuckett, Christopher M. Christology and the New Testament: Jesus and His Earliest Followers. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2001.
16. Vermes, Geza. The Changing Faces of Jesus. London: Penguin, 2000.