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Exalted above the Heavens: The Risen and Ascended Christ is unavailable, but you can change that!

Christians usually focus on what Jesus has done (his life, death and resurrection) and what he will do (his second coming and eternal reign). While there has been something of a revival of interest in his ascension, studies of Jesus in his exalted state are relatively rare. However, the Christ that Christians trust in, relate to and love is not only the one who lived, died, rose and will come...

from a reticence to suggest a form of adoptionism whereby Jesus is ‘made’ or ‘appointed’ Son of God; that is, he was not the Son of God until the resurrection. However, as Moo points out, Paul has already affirmed Jesus’ divine sonship: the gospel is ‘God’s gospel’ concerning ‘his Son’ (v. 3), and so it is ‘the Son who is “appointed” Son’.112 The next qualifying phrase is ‘in power’ (en dynamei). This could be understood to qualify horisthentos (‘decisively established’113) or huiou theou (‘son-of-God-in-power;
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