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June 26, 2026

Christology within Judaism (Enoch Seminar June 2026)

Introduction This summer's Enoch Seminar meeting on the topic of Christology within Judaism is sure...

March 2025

March 03, 2025

John’s Adoptionist Christology? Limits of AI Lit Reviews

At a recent gathering of local New Testament scholars here in Indianapolis, the question of...

November 2022

November 09, 2022

New Books on Early Christian Hymns

While I was reading Andrew Perriman's book In the Form of a God about early...

September 2021

September 27, 2021

What Jesus Learned from Women: More Reviews

This post will be full of all kinds of links related to Jesus. Let me...

April 2021

April 30, 2021

Mike Bird on Adoptionism

I won't present my discussion of Mike Bird's book Jesus The Eternal Son: Answering Adoptionist Christology...

March 2021

March 05, 2021

Divinity and the Learning Jesus

I was asked on Facebook whether in my book I tackle the question of how...

February 2021

February 06, 2021

Conservative and Liberal Biblical Scholarship

In a recent blog post, Ian Paul pushes back on some points John Barton makes...

January 2021

January 04, 2021

Jesus Wasn’t Unique

The New Testament does not claim that Jesus was unique. That may be a shocking...

December 2020

December 05, 2020

Is John’s Christology the Lowest in the New Testament?

I am serious about what I suggest in the title of this blog post, even...

September 2020

September 01, 2020

Jesus, Popular Opinion, and Scholarship

Let me begin with an article in Newsweek about how Americans view Jesus: 52 Percent of...

April 2020

April 12, 2020

Easter Was Not a Trinitarian Reunion

Some thoughts on blog posts related to one of my major fields of research -...

April 06, 2020

Does Paul “Split the Shema”?

Mike Kok blogged recently about some of my academic work on Christology and monotheism. He...

July 2019

July 05, 2019

Adoptionist Christology

It was interesting that Trinity Sunday and Father's Day coincided this year. I wonder how...

August 2018

August 21, 2018

The Bible Shows Us How to Do Theology, Rather than Telling Us What to Believe

In a recent blog post, Pete Enns wrote: Not all biblical writers were on the...

May 2018

May 18, 2018

When the Word Became Flesh

I was very interested to learn that John and Philosophy: A New Reading of the Fourth...

April 2018

April 13, 2018

Jesus among Other Exalted Humans

Another draft post that has been brewing as I've added more and more links to...

December 2017

December 27, 2017

Making Monotheism

A number of posts around the blogosphere have touched on this topic that has long...

September 2017

September 01, 2017

Who is Jesus? The New Testament Answers as Blog Post and Movies

I am really struck by the Lumo Project's work to make movie versions of the...

July 2017

July 07, 2017

Iesus Deus

I have been meaning to blog for a while about David Litwa's book Iesus Deus. It offers...

May 2017

May 19, 2017

Review of Luke’s Christology of Divine Identity

The review I wrote of Nina Henrichs Tarasenkova's book Luke's Christology of Divine Identity has just been...

March 2017

March 22, 2017

Jesus’ Personality and His Father’s Business

Last Sunday in my Sunday school class we started off with the question of whether...

December 2016

December 03, 2016

YouTube Video: Conversation with Anthony Buzzard

Here is the video recording of the conversation I had with Anthony Buzzard yesterday about...

December 02, 2016

Resuming the Conversation with Anthony Buzzard

Unfortunately, my conversation with Anthony Buzzard got interrupted by an internet outage in my building....

December 02, 2016

Conversation Tonight With Anthony Buzzard

I thought I would post a reminder about the conversation tonight. It will be recorded,...

December 01, 2016

Kirk and Hurtado Conversations with Anthony Buzzard

In preparation for, and to help promote your interest in, the conversation that I'll be...

December 01, 2016

Conversation with Sir Anthony Buzzard

Tomorrow evening, I'll be having a conversation with Sir Anthony Buzzard about my work on...

November 2016

November 13, 2016

RBL Review of The Birth of the Trinity

My review of Matthew Bates' book The Birth of the Trinity has appeared in RBL. You...

September 2016

September 16, 2016

Recent Christology Books and Blogging

Matters of Christology are getting renewed attention, including on blogs, but also in some important...

August 2016

August 12, 2016

Videos of Bart Ehrman in Church

Biblical Studies Online drew attention to these videos of Bart Ehrman going to church...to talk about...

August 10, 2016

A Man Attested By God (A Book Attested By Me)

I blogged previously about Daniel Kirk's new book, A Man Attested By God. It is still...

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