Jesus the Christ: The Historical Origins of Christological Doctrine

Jesus the Christ: The Historical Origins of Christological Doctrine by Dahl, Nils Alstrup. hardcover edition. ISBN: 9780800624583.

Nils Alstrup Dahl here offers a coherent view of the origin and development of New Testament Christology, with an eye to theological and trinitarian matters as well. His historical arguments arise from painstaking attention to exegetical matters, but the chapters together constitute an approach to a whole New Testament Christology and suggest a bridge between the New Testament and later creedal formulations, showing how language used to speak of Jesus necessarily involved language used to speak of God. Not easily categorized among the dominant trends of twentieth-century New Testament scholarship, Professor Dahls work can help shape the intellectual and theological agenda of the discipline for a new day.