he now seems to make the worship of Jesus a corollary of this view of Jesus. That is, Bauckham appears to make the worship of Jesus an early consequence of the specific beliefs that Jesus shares the divine throne and the divine action of creation of the worlds. Bauckham correctly points to the remarkable christological beliefs evident in earliest texts. But I find scant indication in earliest Christian texts that the worship of Jesus was a logical step taken as a consequence of these christological
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