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The Preexistent Son: Recovering the Christologies of Matthew, Mark, and Luke is unavailable, but you can change that!

In this challenging book, rising New Testament scholar Simon Gathercole contradicts a commonly held view among biblical scholars—that the Gospel of John is the only Gospel to give evidence for Jesus’ heavenly identity and preexistence. The Preexistent Son demonstrates that Matthew, Mark, and Luke were also well aware that the Son of God existed with the Father prior to his earthly ministry....

The first two chapters here do not contribute directly to the argument for preexistence in the Synoptic Gospels, but function rather as prolegomena. (Since Julius Wellhausen wrote a 568-page Prolegomena, two chapters is really not so bad.) These two chapters aim to establish that the case for preexistence is highly plausible, or even that one would actually expect to find such a christology in Matthew, Mark, and Luke. Chapter 2 aims to accomplish this
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