Book description
Christians today accept that Jesus is God and worship him as part
of the Trinity. But what did the New Testament writers say about
worshipping Jesus? Did they portray him as God, someone whom we should
worship? Or did they see him as a great prophet like Moses or Elijah?
Here, James Dunn introduces readers to the key New Testament passages
that must be examined when trying to understand this important topic.
He argues that we find a clear sense that Jesus enables worship, that
Jesus is in a profound way the place and means of worship. Equally,
for the first Christians Jesus was seen to be not only the one by whom
believers come to God, but also the one by whom God has come to believers.
James D. G. Dunn is Emeritus Professor of Divinity, University of
Durham and is the author of numerous ground-breaking works in New
Testament Studies. His most recent publications include A New
Perspective on Jesus: What the Quest for the Historical Jesus Missed,
Jesus Remembered, The Cambridge Companion to St Paul and The Theology of
Paul the Apostle.
