Jesus, Son of God... Really?

"MEETING JESUS AGAIN FOR THE FIRST TIME" Marcus Borg
CHAPTER 5


Starter Questions For a Study Group
   

1. Share the best thing that happened to you this week.
2. Share the worst thing that happened to you this week.  
3. Share a time last week when you saw God at work in your community or in another person. 

   
Questions for the Passage Below

1. How does it affect you to hear that there was no official Christology in the New Testament period? 
2. What difference does it make to think of the son/father Christology as literal or as metaphorical? 
3. How many other images of Jesus are you aware of other than the son/father Christology? 

   
Take Time to Pray Together and Bless One Another
    

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The most familiar Christology (the branch of Christian theology that deals with the nature of Christ) to people within and outside the church is one that images Jesus' relationship with God as Son of the Father... So familiar is it that it is easy to think of it as the normative or definitive Christology. 

But this had not yet happened in the New Testament period. There was as yet no official Christology.  Rather, the New Testament contains a variety of Christological images, which function as metaphors for imaging the significance of Jesus and his relationship with God...  Developing alongside the early Christian movement's embryonic image son/father Christology was an embryonic wisdom Christology that ultimately saw Jesus as the embodiment or incarnation of "the wisdom of God."  
  
~ Marcus Borg 
  
CHRISTIAN SPIRITUALITY: WISDOM AND PRACTICE: CHURCH OF RECONCILIATION