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The Divine Christ: Paul, the Lord Jesus, and the Scriptures of Israel is unavailable, but you can change that!

For the past century, scholars have debated when and how a divine Christology emerged. This book considers the earliest evidence we have, the letters of Paul. David Capes, a veteran teacher and highly regarded scholar, examines Paul’s letters to show how the apostle constructed his unique portrait of Jesus as divine through a rereading of Israel’s Scriptures. This volume is ideal for courses on...

While kyrios serves as a christological title in nearly every part of Paul’s Letters, it appears most prominent in the hortatory sections. In dealing with matters relating to conduct and practices within his churches, the apostle tends to refer to Jesus as kyrios. One can illustrate this grammatically by noticing that Paul has a tendency to use the title kyrios in portions of his letters dominated by imperative verbs. On the other hand, he employs “Christ” generally in sections of
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