Did Nicaea make Christ Divine?

About this episode

Peter S. Williams discusses early high Christology with Methodist seminarian Joshua Pearsall.

Methodist seminarian Joshua Pearsall invited me onto his @PracticalChristianLessons YouTube channel to discuss evidence for early high Christology from archaeology and in the Epistle of James (audio re-hosted here by permission). For the YouTube video of this interview, see https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tjDx4Ih0ggI View my original paper on "The Epistle of St. James vs. Evolutionary Christology" Theofilos (Volume 8, 2016:1). For the updated revision of the paper, see my book Behold the Man: Essays on the Historical Jesus (Wipf and Stock, 2024). See also: Getting at Jesus: A Comprehensive Critique of Neo-Atheist Nonsense About the Jesus of History (Wipf and Stock, 2019).

People in this episode

Host: Peter S. Williams

Guest: Joshua Pearsall

Topics covered

• high Christology
• archaeology
• Epistle of James
• Christianity
• historical Jesus

Keywords

• Nicaea
• Christ Divine
• early Christianity
• high Christology
• archaeological evidence

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Practical Christian Lessons, Wipf and Stock, YouTube

Books & works: The Epistle of St. James vs. Evolutionary Christology, Behold the Man: Essays on the Historical Jesus, Getting at Jesus: A Comprehensive Critique of Neo-Atheist Nonsense About the Jesus of History

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