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Christology developed more in the period from the crucifixion of Jesus to the writing of Paul’s letter to the Philippians than in the following seven centuries combined. This volume conveniently collects together three related short studies by Martin Hengel: The Son of God, Crucifixion and The Atonement. Together they form an important introduction to a crucial period in the development of...

However, the one common root of all this multiple tradition is probably to be discovered where there had been a fundamental break with the atoning and saving significance of sacrifice in the worship of the Temple in Jerusalem and where the theological significance of this break—which did not come about without harsh resistance—had to be worked out. This break was explained in terms of the revolutionary insight that the death of the Messiah Jesus on Golgotha had brought about once and for all—note
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