It is a virtual commonplace of modern Christology that we must begin with the humanity, not the divinity, of Jesus. As a result, the tide is set against a Christology ‘from above’ and is running strongly in favour of one ‘from below’. Wolfhart Pannenberg is typical. Having asserted that ‘the method of a Christology “from above” is closed to us’, he goes on to say: ‘Our starting point must lie in the question about the man Jesus; only in this way can we ask about his divinity.’1
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