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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...

the indicative of God’s saving work in the Messiah. Because God has acted finally and decisively in the Messiah to establish the new age, and because believers belong to him, Christians ought to live in complete obedience to him. Typically, Paul uses the kyrios title to express these sorts of demands.9 Thus, in discussing the imperative of the gospel—that is, how Christians should behave—the teaching and example of Jesus are regarded as authoritative. Jesus is thus their lordly example. In Paul’s
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