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A POOR MAN'S CHRISTOLOGY

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  04 April 2001

MICHAEL GOULDER
MICHAEL GOULDER
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51 Valentine Rd, Birmingham B14 7AJ, UK
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Abstract

The Jerusalem church called itself oι πτωχoι (Gal 2.10), probably from Isa 61.1, and held a prophetic Christology (Acts 3, 7). The Ebionites in Irenaeus and Epiphanius traced their name to Acts 2–5, and held Jesus to have been a prophetic figure, conceived naturally and possessed by the Spirit/‘Christ’ from baptism till before the passion. The same prophetic/possessionist Christology seems to be taught by Jewish Christians opposed by Justin and Ignatius: the ‘docetists’ believed that Christ (not Jesus) seemed to have suffered. It is also opposed by Polycarp, by John (especially in 1 John 4–5), by Paul (dramatically in 1 Cor 12.1–3), and in the pre-Marcan traditions.

Type
Research Article
Information
New Testament Studies , Volume 45 , Issue 3 , July 1999 , pp. 332 - 348
Copyright
© 1999 Cambridge University Press

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