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:

• Robert M. Bowman Jr and J. Ed Komoszewski, Putting Jesus in His Place: The Case for the Deity of Christ (Grand Rapids: Kregel, 2007)

And then two great books on the Trinity:

• C. FitzSimmons Allison, The Cruelty of Heresy: An Affirmation of Christian Orthodoxy (New York: Morehouse Publishing, 1994)
• Michael Reeves, Delighting in the Trinity: An Introduction to the Christian Faith (Downers Grove: IVP, 2012)