The writing of volume 2 of my Jesus Monotheism series has taken longer than expected. The main reason is that in my work on the Christ hymn in Phil 2 I have been forced to acknowledge dimensions of Phil 2:6–11 which I had missed and parts that I had, in the past, misunderstood. I am… Read more »
Category: Royal Messiah
King Solomon and N. T. Wright’s Pauline Theology
Earlier in the year, in June, I presented a paper on Solomon in 1 Kgs 3–4 at the Son of God Conference at St Andrews: Abstract N. T. Wright has argued that Pauline theology is indebted to a Jewish and biblical notion that the king is a representative, incorporative figure. This paper offers fresh evidence from the… Read more »
N. T. Wright and Israel’s Representative Messiah
I’m getting ready to speak at a symposium on the theme of Divine Sonship at St Andrews (Scotland). My paper tackles a question raised by N. T. (Tom) Wright’s work on Paul and offers new evidence to support one of Tom’s more controversial claims.[1] Wright thinks (as a growing number now do) that when Paul uses the… Read more »
On Pauline Christology and the Glory of Israel’s Messiah
In my last post I offered a few thoughts on Joshua Jipp’s new book . I’ve enjoyed reading Joshua’s work ever since I came across his insightful and well written book on . (I have particularly benefited from his article on Paul’s Areopagus speech in Acts 17—published in the Journal of Biblical Literature vol. 131… Read more »