I think most Christians today would answer “yes” without much hesitation. The idea that “Jesus is God,” or the “Son of God, or at least that he is “Divine,” however that complex notion might be explained–seems pretty well a standard part of Christian faith. But was that the view of Jesus…
Another great post over at “Scribes of the Kingdom” which I am happy to endorse. I prefer my friend, the late Jimmy Dunn, Christology in the Making (Eerdmans 1966) to Bauckham’s Jesus and the God of Israel (Eerdmans, 2008). Dunn shows that nowhere in the New Testament documents is the Lord…