Christology in the Making: A New Testament Inquiry into the Origins of the Doctrine of the Incarnation

The New Testament documents cover an intense period of innovation and development in what we now call "Christology." Before Jesus, "Christology" either did not exist, or existed, properly speaking, only in different forms of "messianic expectation." At the end of that period, however, an advanced and far-reaching Christology is already in place that does not hesitate to speak of Jesus as "God."

This excellent study of the origins and early development of Christology by James D. G. Dunn clar...