facing the community of the Fourth Gospel is a Christology too high, a Christology with a deficient understanding of Jesus’ humanity. The present article calls into question any developmental scheme in which the earliest Christians, like Paul, held a ‘low Christology’, which evolves over time to a ‘high Christology’, represented by the Gospel of John. Paul’s use of YHWH texts suggests that he is already working from a high Christology, a Christology in which Jesus bears the divine name and full religious