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- Title
The Christology of Early Christian Practice.
- Authors
Kazen, Thomas
- Abstract
This article suggests that an early view of Jesus as an eschatological prophet could serve as a "root model" to which most other christological conceptions may be related. It explores the possibility of confirming an early "prophet typology" through examining the practice of early groups of Christ-believers as reflected in NT texts. It is suggested that the practice of early followers of Jesus to a large extent could be viewed as a "christopraxy" and that such a christopraxy is based on experience; believers related their own social and religious experiences to historical (primary) experiences of the earliest Jesus movement, through narrative (secondary) experiences, mediated by the Jesus tradition, whether orally or as texts. While a developing "high" christology is frequently associated with liturgical expressions and doxological language, traces of social action in imitation of Jesus' own practice point in a different direction, reflecting Jesus' actions as an eschatological prophet of the kingdom. As we will see, such traces are found both in Pauline letters and in later texts.
- Subjects
JESUS Christ -- History of doctrines -- Early church, ca. 30-600; CHRISTOLOGY; TYPOLOGY (Theology) -- History of doctrines; NEW Testament criticism &; interpretation; KINGDOM of Jesus Christ
- Publication
Journal of Biblical Literature, 2008, Vol 127, Issue 3, p591
- ISSN
0021-9231
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.2307/25610141