How Jesus Became God
How Jesus Became God
1. Jesus - The Man Who Became God
2. Greco-Roman Gods Who Became Human
3. Humans as Gods in the Greco-Roman World
4. Gods Who Were Human in Ancient Judaism
5. Ancient Jews Who Were Gods
6. The Life and Teachings of Jesus
7. Did Jesus Think He Was God?
8. The Death of Jesus - Historical Certainties
9. Jesus’s Death - What Historians Can’t Know
10. The Resurrection - What Historians Can’t Know
11. What History Reveals about the Resurrection
12. The Disciples’ Visions of Jesus
13. Jesus’s Exaltation - Earliest Christian Views
14. The Backward Movement of Christology
15. Paul’s View - Christ’s Elevated Divinity
16. John’s View - The Word Made Human
17. Was Christ Human? The Docetic View
18. The Divided Christ of the Separationists
19. Christ’s Dual Nature – Proto-Orthodoxy
20. The Birth of the Trinity
21. The Arian Controversy
22. The Conversion of Constantine
23. The Council of Nicea
24. Once Jesus Became God
Overview
In 24 provocative lectures, Professor Ehrman takes you deep into the process by which the divinity of Jesus was first conceived by his followers, demonstrating how this conception was refined over time to become the core of the Christian theology. A distinguished scholar of Christianity and New York Times best-selling author, Professor Ehrman develops the inquiry with meticulous research and in-depth analysis of texts. In these lectures, Ehrman reveals that the theological understanding of Jesus as God came about through a complex series of factors and events, each of which must be understood in order to grasp this most extraordinary and historically pivotal story. In the enthralling inquiry of How Jesus Became God Professor Ehrman lays bare the diverse elements that combined to produce both an astonishing true-life story and one of history’s most significant developments.
