The Origin of Divine Christology

Andrew Ter Ern Loke is Research Assistant Professor at the Faith and Global Engagement Initiative, The University of Hong Kong. His previous publications include A Kryptic Model of the Incarnation (2014) and several articles in leading international peer-reviewed journals such as Religious Studies and the Journal of Theological Studies.

• 1. Introducing the theories and approaches concerning the origin of divine Christology; 2. The highest Christology was present among the earliest Christians: the evidences; 3. Replies to objections involving various exalted figures in Second Temple Judaism; 4. Replies to other objections concerning the highest Christology of the earliest Christians; 5. The extent of highest Christology in earliest Christianity; 6. The best explanation for the origin of highest Christology; 7. Assessing the evidences for the origin of highest Christology in the Gospels; Conclusion.

'This fresh attempt to grapple with the problem of the origins of Christology both offers what is in some ways an elegantly simple solution, and is argued with a philosophical sophistication uncommon in New Testament scholarship. Loke's argument deserves close attention from all those interested in the earliest Christian beliefs about Jesus.' Simon Gathercole, University of Cambridge