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Hurtado, Larrry Weir was born on December 29, 1943 in Kansas City, Missouri, United States. Son of Weir Frank and Bonnie Jean (Burton) Hurtado.
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Larry Hurtado's One God, One Lord has been described as 'one of the most important and provocative Christologies of all time' (Alan F. Segal). The book has taken its place among works on Jesus as one consistently cited, consistently read, and consistently examined in scholarly discourse. Hurtado examines the early cultic devotion to Jesus through a range of Jewish sources. Hurtado outlines an early 'high' Christological theology, showing how the Christ of faith emerges from monotheistic Judaism. The book has already found a home on the shelves of many in its two previous editions. In this new Cornerstones edition Hurtado provides a substantial epilogue of some twenty-thousand words, which brings this ground-breaking work to the fore once more, in a format accessible to scholars and students alike.
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This outstanding book provides an in-depth historical study of the place of Jesus in the religious life, beliefs, and worship of Christians from the beginnings of the Christian movement down to the late second century. Lord Jesus Christ is a monumental work on earliest Christian devotion to Jesus, sure to replace Wilhelm Boussets Kyrios Christos (1913) as the standard work on the subject. Larry Hurtado, widely respected for his previous contributions to the study of the New Testament and Christian origins, offers the best view to date of how the first Christians saw and reverenced Jesus as divine. In assembling this compelling picture, Hurtado draws on a wide body of ancient sources, from Scripture and the writings of such figures as Ignatius of Antioch and Justin to apocryphal texts such as the Gospel of Thomas and the Gospel of Truth. Hurtado considers such themes as early beliefs about Jesus divine status and significance, but he also explores telling devotional practices of the time, including prayer and worship, the use of Jesus name in exorcism, baptism and healing, ritual invocation of Jesus as Lord, martyrdom, and lesser-known phenomena such as prayer postures and the curious scribal practice known today as the nomina sacra. The revealing portrait that emerges from Hurtados comprehensive study yields definitive answers to questions like these: How important was this formative period to later Christian tradition? When did the divinization of Jesus first occur? Was early Christianity influenced by neighboring religions? How did the idea of Jesus divinity change old views of God? And why did the powerful dynamics of early beliefs and practices encourage people to make the costly move of becoming a Christian? Boasting an unprecedented breadth and depth of coverage — the book speaks authoritatively on everything from early Christian history to themes in biblical studies to New Testament Christology — Hurtados Lord Jesus Christ is at once significant enough that a wide range of scholars will want to read it and accessible enough that general readers interested at all in Christian origins will also profit greatly from it.
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This monograph is a detailed examination of the textual characteristics and relationships of important early Greek manuscripts of the Gospel of Mark (chiefly Codex Washingtonianus W, and also Family 13 and P45), and challenges the generally-accepted view that these manuscripts are witnesses to an early stage of the Caesarean text-type. / The study begins with a discussion and critique of previous studies on the Caesarean text-type, showing the methodological weaknesses that demand a fresh analysis of the data and emphasizing the crucial importance of Codex W for the whole question of the textual history of Mark. Then a methodological approach is set forth, involving both careful quantitative measurement of manuscript agreements and detailed analysis of variants in the interest of determining both the textual relationships and textual character of manuscripts. / When this more sophisticated approach is applied to the chief witnesses to the so-called “pre-Caesarean” text of Mark, it is confirmed that W and P45 is a weaker member of the same group. However, the commonly-held view that these witnesses reflect the early stage of the Caesarean text-type is shown to be erroneous. In addition to clarifying the textual relationships of the witnesses, the study defines more accurately their textual character, showing the scribal purposes reflected in the variants that characterize these manuscripts and adding considerably to our knowledge of the forces affecting the early transmission of the text of Mark. / This is the first detailed examination of the Markan text of Codex W since the publication of the manuscript over 65 years ago, and the first published book-length study dealing with the Caesarean text of Mark since the initial work of Kirsopp Lake and his colleagues Blake and New. / This work not only addresses a major issue in the textual history of Mark, but offers methodological suggestions for the continuing investigation of the textual history of the New Testament.
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This volume makes a valuable contribution to the debate about the origins and development of Christianity. Larry Hurtado argues that understanding the nature of Christianity in the first century requires taking full account of the first Christians' devotional practices because worship was the context in which christological titles and other expressions of faith were given their specific meaning--a fact that has largely been ignored. Hurtado focuses on two distinguishing characteristics of earliest Christian worship: its exclusivity (rejecting the worship of other deities) and its "binitarian" shape (the veneration of Christ alongside God the Father). Setting early Christianity within the religious environment of the Roman era, Hurtado describes the features of Christianity that attracted followers and led them to renounce other religions. He then turns his attention to a more detailed discussion of the place of Christ in the monotheistic worship of the earliest Christians, showing that Christ figured in their public and corporate devotional life at a surprisingly early stage. The book concludes with some reflections for Christian worship today based on the historical features of early Christian devotional practices. Clear, illuminating, and relevant to the modern church, this volume will be of interest to scholars, pastors, students, and general readers seeking insight into the origins of Christian faith and practice.
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The classic and ground-breaking work in Christology, with extensive new introduction, evaluating the most recent developments in current scholarship.
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( The classic and ground-breaking work in Christology, wi...)
The classic and ground-breaking work in Christology, with extensive new introduction, evaluating the most recent developments in current scholarship.
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Hurtado, Larrry Weir was born on December 29, 1943 in Kansas City, Missouri, United States. Son of Weir Frank and Bonnie Jean (Burton) Hurtado.
Bachelor, Central Bible College, Springfield, Missouri, 1965. Master of Arts, Trinity Evangelical Division School, Deerfield, Illinois, 1967. Doctor of Philosophy, Case Western Reserve University, 1973.
Pastor North Shore Assembly of God, Skokie, Illinois, 1971-1975. Assistant professor New Testament Regent College, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, 1975-1978. Professor religion University Manitoba, Winnipeg, 1978-1996.
Professor New Testament language, literature and theology University Edinburgh, Scotland, since 1996.
(This monograph is a detailed examination of the textual c...)
(This outstanding book provides an in-depth historical stu...)
(The classic and ground-breaking work in Christology, with...)
( The classic and ground-breaking work in Christology, wi...)
( Larry Hurtado's One God, One Lord has been described as...)
(This volume makes a valuable contribution to the debate a...)
Member Society for New Testament Studies, Society of Biblical Literature.
Married Linda Ruth Bellah (divorced 1975). 1 child, Tiffany; married Shannon Lynne Hunter. Children: Elisse, Jesse.