Chris Tilling

British New Testament scholar and author known for work on Pauline Christology and early Christian theology; author of Paul's Divine Christology and a contributor to How God Became Jesus.

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  1. 1. Paul's Divine Christology

    This study argues that Paul regarded Christ as truly divine, demonstrated not merely by abstract titles but by the lived, worshipful relationship believers and Paul himself have with Christ. Through close analysis of relational language, prayer, invocation, and “in Christ” formulations in the letters, it shows that Christ functionally occupies the place of Israel’s God in the communities’ devotion and identity. It challenges simple “high versus low” categories, engaging alternative models and proposing a relational approach to divine christology. The result is a portrait of early Christian monotheism reconfigured around the lordship of Christ without abandoning Jewish monotheistic commitments.

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