This is my concluding review of Bird (et. al)’s How God Became Jesus, with my overall impressions. For a slower in-depth walk through of Ehrman’s How Jesus Became God, its arguments, and this reply book, How God Became Jesus, check out my series Ehrman’s Christology War.
» Read the entire post: Review: How God Became Jesus ed. Michael Bird »
I’m continuing to work through Ehrman’s How Jesus Became God and Bird’s (et al.) How God Became Jesus. You can find each piece in the series here. Due to the size of this summary, I will offer my response and Simon Gathercole’s in a future post.
» Read the entire post: Ehrman’s Christology War #4a: Earliest Christology »
I’ve given it some thought and I’ve figured out how I will review How God Became Jesus and How Jesus Became God. Considering the books have parallel(ish) chapters, I plan to review the books side by side in a series of posts. I will probably overview a chapter at a time, or maybe a topic, and present “both sides” of the debate. Then at the end I’ll give a final review of both books.
» Read the entire post: Bird’s “How God Became Jesus”: Introduction »
It’s On!Many thanks to HarperCollins UK and Kuperard for providing review copies of Ehrman’s How Jesus Became God and Bird’s (and co.) How God Became Jesus.
Two titans are being released today and will no doubt cause internet carnage in their wake. One book is called How Jesus Became God and the other, How God Became Jesus, is responding to it. The former is from the (in)famous skeptical scholar Bart Ehrman, and the latter is from a supergroup of evangelical scholars – but hopefully unlike supergroups, they’re actually good together – Michael Bird, Simon Gathercole, Craig Evans, Charles Hill, and Chris Tilling. These two books tackles the questions of whether Jesus’ earliest followers considered Him as divine or whether this was a later development in the church.
Many have heard conflicting reports of N.T. Wright and the worth of reading his books. Some uncritically follow him, and some stand back in fear. Some may wonder why I am reading Wright’s epic Paul and the Faithfulness of God. Speaking for myself, my first impression of Wright was wariness of him and his writings, and it took some time to overcome that first (mistaken, I believe) opinion. I certainly don’t agree with everything Wright says, but I appreciate much of what he says, and how he communicates it. I believe we are on ‘the same side’, so to speak.
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