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Where should we begin? With the man Jesus of Nazareth, who lived in Palestine 19 centuries ago and who became the founder of the Christian religion — though, paradoxically, without intending to do so since he apparently expected the end of the age within a few years? Or with the Christ figure of developed Christian theology and faith, the eternal Second Person of a divine Trinity, who once lived a human life and now reigns as Lord of all?
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The Q material, believed to reflect the earliest Christian tradition, is highly apocalyptic. See Howard Clark Kee, Jesus in History: An Approach to the Study of the Gospels 2nd edn (New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1977) ch. 3.
See Helmet Koester, History and Literature of Early Christianity, vol. 2 (Philadelphia: Fortress, 1982 ) p. 89.
See Norman Perrin, The New Testament: An Introduction ( New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1974 ) pp. 42–3.
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Hick, J. (1993). An Inspiration Christology. In: Disputed Questions in Theology and the Philosophy of Religion. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-12695-8_3
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