{"id":1094,"date":"2010-07-23T17:05:00","date_gmt":"2010-07-23T17:05:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/religionprof\/2010\/07\/optimistic-chad-reviews-did-the-first-christians-worship-political-jesus\/"},"modified":"2010-07-23T17:05:00","modified_gmt":"2010-07-23T17:05:00","slug":"optimistic-chad-reviews-did-the-first-christians-worship-political-jesus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/religionprof\/2010\/07\/optimistic-chad-reviews-did-the-first-christians-worship-political-jesus.html","title":{"rendered":"Optimistic Chad Reviews Did The First Christians Worship (Political) Jesus"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><p><a href=\"http:\/\/politicaljesus.com\/2010\/07\/23\/did-the-first-christians-worship-jesus-intro\/\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Chad at the Political Jesus blog<\/a> is reading, and has started a blog series reviewing, James Dunn\u2019s book <span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Did-First-Christians-Worship-Jesus\/dp\/0664231969?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=jamefmcgrshom-20&amp;link_code=btl&amp;camp=213689&amp;creative=392969\" target=\"_blank\" class=\" decorated-link\" rel=\"nofollow\"><em>Did the First Christians Worship Jesus?: The New Testament Evidence<\/em><\/a><em><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" height=\"1\" src=\"https:\/\/www.assoc-amazon.com\/e\/ir?t=jamefmcgrshom-20&amp;l=btl&amp;camp=213689&amp;creative=392969&amp;o=1&amp;a=0664231969\" style=\"border-bottom: medium none;border-left: medium none;border-right: medium none;border-top: medium none;margin: 0px;padding-bottom: 0px !important;padding-left: 0px !important;padding-right: 0px !important;padding-top: 0px !important\" width=\"1\"><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"blogger-post-footer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/tracker\/7622297540113836091-1439392902771086513?l=exploringourmatrix.blogspot.com\" alt=\"\"><\/div>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chad at the Political Jesus blog is reading, and has started a blog series reviewing, James Dunn\u2019s book Did the First Christians Worship Jesus?: The New Testament Evidence<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":136,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1094","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Optimistic Chad Reviews Did The First Christians Worship (Political) Jesus<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Chad at the Political Jesus blog is reading, and has started a blog series reviewing, James Dunn&#039;s book Did the First Christians Worship Jesus?: The New\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/religionprof\/2010\/07\/optimistic-chad-reviews-did-the-first-christians-worship-political-jesus.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Optimistic Chad Reviews Did The First Christians Worship (Political) Jesus\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Chad at the Political Jesus blog is reading, and has started a blog series reviewing, James Dunn&#039;s book Did the First Christians Worship Jesus?: The New\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/religionprof\/2010\/07\/optimistic-chad-reviews-did-the-first-christians-worship-political-jesus.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Religion Prof: The Blog of James F. 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