{"id":94,"date":"2011-05-06T10:48:00","date_gmt":"2011-05-06T10:48:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/religionprof\/2011\/05\/monotheism-and-christology-reviews-in-expository-times\/"},"modified":"2011-05-06T10:48:00","modified_gmt":"2011-05-06T10:48:00","slug":"monotheism-and-christology-reviews-in-expository-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/religionprof\/2011\/05\/monotheism-and-christology-reviews-in-expository-times.html","title":{"rendered":"Monotheism and Christology Reviews in Expository Times"},"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><span><span><span><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" height=\"1\" src=\"http:\/\/www.assoc-amazon.com\/e\/ir?t=jamefmcgrshom-20&amp;l=bil&amp;camp=213689&amp;creative=392969&amp;o=1&amp;a=025203418X\" style=\"border: currentColor !important;margin: 0px !important;padding: 0px !important\" width=\"1\"><\/span><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" height=\"1\" src=\"http:\/\/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: currentColor !important;margin: 0px !important;padding: 0px !important\" width=\"1\"><\/span><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" height=\"1\" src=\"http:\/\/www.assoc-amazon.com\/e\/ir?t=jamefmcgrshom-20&amp;l=btl&amp;camp=213689&amp;creative=392969&amp;o=1&amp;a=025203418X\" style=\"border: currentColor !important;margin: 0px !important;padding: 0px !important\" width=\"1\"><\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Only-True-God-Christian-Monotheism\/dp\/025203418X?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=jamefmcgrshom-20&amp;link_code=bil&amp;camp=213689&amp;creative=392969\" target=\"_blank\" class=\" decorated-link\" rel=\"nofollow\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"The Only True God: Early Christian Monotheism in Its Jewish Context\" src=\"https:\/\/ws.amazon.com\/widgets\/q?MarketPlace=US&amp;ServiceVersion=20070822&amp;ID=AsinImage&amp;WS=1&amp;Format=_SL160_&amp;ASIN=025203418X&amp;tag=jamefmcgrshom-20\"><\/a>Larry Hurtado\u2019s review of my book\u00a0<span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Only-True-God-Christian-Monotheism\/dp\/025203418X?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=jamefmcgrshom-20&amp;link_code=btl&amp;camp=213689&amp;creative=392969\" target=\"_blank\" class=\" decorated-link\" rel=\"nofollow\"><em>The Only True God: Early Christian Monotheism in Its Jewish Context<\/em><\/a><\/span>\u00a0is out in <a href=\"http:\/\/ext.sagepub.com\/content\/122\/8\/383.full.pdf+html\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">the May\u00a02011 issue of\u00a0<em>Expository Times<\/em><\/a> (a longer version can be found <a href=\"http:\/\/larryhurtado.files.wordpress.com\/2010\/07\/mcgrath-reveiw-essay1.pdf\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">on his web site<\/a>, and that version of the review provided the basis for a useful <a href=\"http:\/\/exploringourmatrix.blogspot.com\/2010\/11\/responding-to-larry-hurtados-review.html\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">discussion<\/a> that took place between his blog and <a href=\"http:\/\/exploringourmatrix.blogspot.com\/2010\/11\/continuing-conversation-with-larry_28.html\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">this<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/exploringourmatrix.blogspot.com\/2010\/11\/continuing-conversation-with-larry.html\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">one<\/a> in November of last year). <\/p>\n<p>Apparently <a href=\"http:\/\/ext.sagepub.com\/content\/122\/8\/386.full.pdf+html\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">right after it is a review<\/a> of James Dunn\u2019s recent book <span><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>. If you are interested in the topic of monotheism and Christology in early Christianity, and have access to the print or electronic version of <em>Expository Times<\/em>, it is probably worth a look!<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"blogger-post-footer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/tracker\/7622297540113836091-7190932523701927218?l=exploringourmatrix.blogspot.com\" alt=\"\"><\/div>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Larry Hurtado\u2019s review of my book\u00a0The Only True God: Early Christian Monotheism in Its Jewish Context\u00a0is out in the May\u00a02011 issue of\u00a0Expository Times (a longer version can be found on his web site, and that version of the review provided the basis for a useful discussion that took place between his blog and this one [&hellip;]<\/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-94","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>Monotheism and Christology Reviews in Expository Times<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Larry Hurtado&#039;s review of my book&nbsp;The Only True God: Early Christian Monotheism in Its Jewish Context&nbsp;is out in the May&nbsp;2011 issue\" \/>\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\/2011\/05\/monotheism-and-christology-reviews-in-expository-times.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Monotheism and Christology Reviews in Expository Times\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Larry Hurtado&#039;s review of my book&nbsp;The Only True God: Early Christian Monotheism in Its Jewish Context&nbsp;is out in the May&nbsp;2011 issue\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/religionprof\/2011\/05\/monotheism-and-christology-reviews-in-expository-times.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Religion Prof: The Blog of James F. 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