At the Origins of Christian Worship: The Context and Character of Earliest Christian Devotion (Biblia.com)

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This volume makes a valuable contribution to the debate about the origins and development of Christianity. Larry Hurtado argues that understanding the nature of Christianity in the first century requires taking full account of the first Christians’ devotional practices because worship was the context in which christological titles and other expressions of faith were given their specific meaning—a...

implications for Christian self-understanding and for Christian views about salvation. Christians traditionally worship Jesus as the unique Son of God the Father. This uniqueness of Jesus’ sonship is important. This unique sonship means that the relationship of Christians to God is to be understood as derivative, and is not properly seen as possessed by Christians by nature or as an inherent property, but as bestowed by God’s grace through Christ.18 For example, Paul portrays the filial relationship

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