Kyrios (Lord) emerges from the language of LORD in the Greek Old Testament; Paul presents Jesus as Israel’s Messiah, or anointed one (Christ). Yet Paul grasps that through the climax of Israel’s history in Christ Jesus, God has opened the future story of the entire cosmos. As I read Pauline Christology with my dad that afternoon, I marveled in a new way at Jesus’s humanity in particular. What struck me was the off-handed way that Jesus’s humanity was taken for granted by Paul and by my father as
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