Quotes About Hurtado

For Jesus' resurrection is not presented as a restoration to ordinary life but was seen as a catapulting of Jesus into the glorious/glorified life of the world to come.

NT texts discourse about the divine Spirit is shaped by this link with Jesus.

I have referred to a "binitarian" devotional pattern, a "mutation" in the devotional pattern and beliefs dominant in the Jewish matrix of earliest Christianity.27

reiterate the point that all these are actions of personal agency, giving the Spirit an intensely personal quality.

of the NT texts as reflecting what we might call a "proto-Trinitarian" outlook?

briefly earlier, two things stand out: on the one hand the unprecedented and programmatic place of Jesus and on the other hand his clear functional subordination to "God the Father.

NT writings the Spirit is linked specifically with Jesus in a remarkable and unparalleled closeness.31

noteworthy feature of the NT references to the Spirit is the strong connection with Jesus.

which he could hold captive the souls of the children of light.13

This provides further warrant for the observation that the unhesitating identification of "God" as the OT deity in the NT is noteworthy.