Kavin Rowe’s new interesting published dissertation, Early Narrative Christology: The Lord in the Gospel of Luke, gets a good review from Joel Green in Review of Biblical Literature (click to download the five page review for free). Rowe, who also has several nice articles worth examining, is part of the world’s greatest NT faculty (Duke). In short Rowe’s book argues for a progressive presentation of Jesus as Kypios, such that Jesus shares in divine identity through his name and activity.

Similarly, Rowe’s article on Romans 10:13 has been important for Richard Bauckham (see especially this paper) and N. T. Wright (in his Romans commentary) in their work on Jesus, God and monotheism in Paul; there Rowe and others see Jesus presented as YHWH, a presentation rooted in Joel 2 and the eschatological expectations of Jewish monotheism. “Christological monotheism” seems to be gaining credibility and picking up steam. In any event I think it’s safe to say that James Dunn (among many others), who argued a fair bit that everything related to Trinitarian thought was exceedingly late, is now due for revision. See also Larry Hurtado, Lord Jesus Christ and Fee’s Pauline Christology–the latter reviewed in great detail by Chris Tilling. The best short introduction to such things, easily accessible to all, is R. Bauckham, God Crucified: Monotheism and Christology in the New Testament, available cheap from Amazon, under 80 pages. Google the full title in quotes for positive reviews in Theology Today and Denver Journal.

The paper by Bauckham above appears to be a paper delivered to the Pauline Epistles Section of SBL in Toronto on November 25, 2002. I have only found it online. The first paragraph runs as follows: In my book God Crucified: Monotheism and Christology in the New Testament (The Didsbury Lectures for 1996; Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1999) I set out in broad outline a particular thesis about the relationship of early Jewish monotheism and early Christian Christology, which also entails a relatively fresh proposal about the character of the earliest Christology.1 My purpose in the present paper is to summarize the thesis of the first two chapters of God Crucified, and then to focus in considerably more detail than I have done hitherto on the Pauline epistles, to show
how the thesis is verified and exemplified in Pauline theology.

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