On Thursday 30 November 2017, I took part in a Veritas Forum at McMaster University in Ontario, Canada. My dialogue partner was Muslim scholar, Dr. Shabir Ally, and we discussed “Jesus: Man, Myth or God”. Below is a link to my slide deck so you can read at your leisure the scholarly quotations and biblical passages I referred to. A lot of content was packed into 25 minutes; hopefully this will let you dig deeper into the material.
- Download slides from main presentation (PDF; 8.1MB)
- Download slides from closing statement (PDF; 1.3MB)
Further Reading
There are lots of wonderful books on the subject, but two texts I would recommend to help you engage with Early High Christology, are:
- Richard Bauckham, God Crucified: Monotheism and Christology in the New Testament (Carlisle: Paternoster, 1998)
- Larry W. Hurtado, Lord Jesus Christ: Devotion to Jesus in Earliest Christianity (Grand Rapids, MI: Eerdmans, 2003)
And at a slightly more popular level:
And then two great books on the Trinity: