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MARKAN CHRISTOLOGY: GOD-LANGUAGE FOR JESUS?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 October 1999

M. EUGENE BORING
Affiliation:
Brite Divinity School, TCU, Forth Worth, TX 76129, USA

Abstract

It is possible to construct both ‘ontological’ and ‘chronological’ scales on which Mark's Christology is then plotted. In neither case, however, does the method correspond to Mark's own christological method, which uses narrative to juxtapose pictures of Jesus as both ‘truly human’ and ‘truly divine’. This essay explicates the ‘truly divine’ side of Mark's presentation, arguing that a number of Markan texts express a ‘high’ Christology without compromising either Jesus’ humanity or a truly monotheistic doctrine of God.

Type
Research Article
Copyright
© 1999 Cambridge University Press

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