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Podcast 100 – Dr. Larry Hurtado on God in New Testament Theology:

Professor Larry Hurtado

In this 100th (!!) episode of the trinities podcast I talk with Dr. Hurtado about his book God in New Testament Theology. He talks about

• the theocentric basis of New Testament christology
• what the New Testament adds to the theology of the Old Testament
• God as “Father”
• the way Christians view God in relation to Jesus
• whether we need to interact with God through a mediator
• the New Testament picture of God as love and yet as dangerous, and of Jesus as both savior and judge – and both as sources ofagape love
• how the NT picture of God differs from the theologies of pagan deities
• how recently, and even in ancient times, in popular thinking Jesus can eclipse God in Christians’ minds, becoming a friendlier, less threatening god than the Father
• ho theos vs. theos in early Christianity, and how the NT and early texts distinguish between Jesus and the one God (aka the Father)
• whether or not the NT authors rethink how Judaic monotheism should be understood
• the “dyadic devotional pattern” we see in NT-era worship practice, and whether this violated the first commandment
• the sense in which Yahweh is unique, according to the Bible
• whether Dr. Hurtado would agree with the suggestion that Jesus is “a part of” God
• how the NT as it were “redefines” God with reference to Jesus
• whether or not in his view Dr. Hurtado’s work supports “social” (three-self) Trinity theories
• that contemporary theology has tended to neglect the literature of the first three Christian centuries in favor of the “classics” of the 4th and 5th centuries
• Dr. Richard Bauckham’s “christology of divine identity” as an attempt to make sense of the NT apart from later “ontological” ways of approaching the matter

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Categories: Bible, Christianity