{"id":22488,"date":"2014-03-27T08:36:03","date_gmt":"2014-03-27T12:36:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/religionprof\/?p=22488"},"modified":"2014-03-27T08:36:03","modified_gmt":"2014-03-27T12:36:03","slug":"how-jesus-became-god-initial-ripples","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/religionprof\/2014\/03\/how-jesus-became-god-initial-ripples.html","title":{"rendered":"How Jesus Became God: Initial Ripples"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<\/head>

\"\"<\/a>\"\"Bart Ehrman\u2019s latest book How Jesus Became God: The Exaltation of a Jewish Preacher from Galilee<\/a>\"\"<\/em> is now available. I\u2019ve received my copy and will be reading it and blogging about it soon.<\/p>\n

Jeremy Bouma has already pointed<\/a> out something important, which is typical of Ehrman\u2019s books for a popular audience. He is simply popularizing and communicating what most scholars think. His view of the evolution of Christology is not something new and innovative. It is what scholars like Charles Moule, James D. G. Dunn, and myself<\/a>\"\" have written about over the past half a century or so. And so for Evangelical scholars like Mike Bird<\/a> to suggest that Ehrman is way off base is to suggest that much of mainstream scholarship is way off base \u2013 and that is something that conservative Evangelicals have always said, and so there is probably nothing new there either. But I\u2019ll comment for sure when I\u2019ve read both books.<\/p>\n

Ehrman shared<\/a> his first radio interview about the book on his blog.<\/p>\n