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  • Chapter 6 - Was Jesus Perfect?

  • from Part II - Jesus’ Perfection
  • Robin Gill, University of Kent, Canterbury
  • Book:
    Human Perfection, Transfiguration and Christian Ethics
    Published online:
    09 May 2024
    Print publication:
    16 May 2024, pp 119-144

  • Summary

    Chapter 6, continuing an analysis of Hebrews’ claim, examines the question ‘Was Jesus Perfect?’ or, perhaps better, ‘In what sense for Christians was Jesus perfect?’ It returns to separate discussions half a century ago by Eric Mascall and Karl Rahner, and eventually reaches a conclusion closer to Rahner than Mascall. This conclusion hinges on the, now more widely accepted, evidence within the Synoptic Gospels that Jesus mistakenly thought that the Parousia was imminent. The work of the Baptist George Raymond Beasley-Murray is seen as crucial here. Finally, this chapter identifies the Synoptic accounts of the Transfiguration, along with 2 Peter, as crucial to early perceptions of Jesus’ perfection.