It was interesting that Trinity Sunday and Father’s Day coincided this year. I wonder how many churches took the opportunity to explore the tension between Jesus’ typically theocentric, “Father-focused” teaching, and the doctrine that makes him co-equal and co-eternal with the Father.
My review of Larry Hurtado’s 2017 book has been published.
Even Higher Christology in the Gospel of John: Frey’s Edinburgh Essay
Christological Non-Starters: Part 1, “Adoption as Divine Son”
https://www.postost.net/2019/06/appointment-son-god
Debriefing the Trinity Debate: A Conversation with Dale Tuggy
https://cruxsolablog.com/2019/03/11/jesus-according-to-the-new-testament-according-to-dunn-gupta/
Andrew Perriman regularly explores topics related to this:
Adoptionist Christology and preparing the way of the Lord
Jesus, pre-existence, and often wanting to gather Jerusalem as a hen does its chicks
More on Michael Bird, divine identity, and the Gospel of Mark
https://trinities.org/blog/origen-on-the-challenge-to-jesus-is-god-apologists/
Craig Keener reviews Gordon Fee’s book
Allan Bevere on Scot McKnight’s book
Chuck Queen preached about John 10
Drew Smith on Jesus as divine agent
https://trinities.org/blog/podcast-253-the-apostle-paul-a-unitarian/
Bob Cornwall on his new book about Trinitarianism
Transcript of a lecture by N. T. Wright.
A few notes on early divine Christology
The Sacred Page explored the image of the divine shepherd and the language of the Father being greater in the Gospel of John.
https://progressivechristianity.org/resources/who-was-jesus-part-two/
An attempt to explain the Trinity with help from computer programming
Finally, see James Tabor’s post about a book he is working on, related to the idea that Jesus was the natural offspring of Joseph and Mary – another idea that was widely held in ancient adoptionism as well as in much modern liberal Christianity.
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