I just noticed that Michael Kruse on his blog has featured the Exiled Preacher and his interview with The Kevin Vanhoozer Interview. So I will give Guy Davies a double workout today since while there I saw that he had on Monday posted a review of a favorite book of mine, God Crucified: Monotheism & Christology in the New Testament, by Richard Bauckham. Go to God Crucified by Richard Bauckham. Here is a sample.

In this gem of a book, Bauckham sketches out his proposal that New Testament Christology is best understood using the Hebrew concept of the divine identity rather than Greek notions of person, essence and nature. It is sometimes assumed that the sub-apostolic church developed a higher Christology than we find in the New Testament, because it is only from from Nicaea onwards that Christ was confessed as fully God - a divine person who was homoousion with the Father. Bauckham questions this assumption saying,

"I shall be arguing what will seem to anyone familiar with the study of New Testament Christology a surprising thesis: that the highest possible Christology, the inclusion of Jesus in the unique divine identity, was central to the faith of the early church even before any of the New testament writings were written, since it occurs in all of them." (p. 27).