To this point I have enumerated everything that Paul explicitly says about what Jesus said, did, and experienced during his earthly life. The driving question is the one that I turn to now and in the next post. Why didn’t Paul tell us *more*? I’ve long been fascinated by this question, and even though I’ve thought about it for well over thirty years, I’ve never decided on what I really think. There are just too many counter-arguments for every perspective that I’ve heard or thought of! In these two posts I want to lay out three of the main options. If you think of others that need to be aired, feel free to make a comment. I have taken the following from my textbook The New Testament: A Historical Introduction to the Early Christian Writings. Read by Petra Ortiz
Bart provides quick summaries and questions for two of the shortest Pauline epistles.
Dr. Ehrman discusses the relationship between the Jewish concept of Wisdom (Sophia) and John's emphasis on Jesus as the Word (Logos). Read by John...
We now move from Paul's Christology that *combined* an incarnational view with an exaltation view, to a Christology that is incarnational through and through...