RT Article
T1 A POOR MAN'S CHRISTOLOGY
JF New Testament studies
VO 45
IS 3
SP 332
OP 348
A1 Goulder, Michael Douglas 1927-
LA English
PB Cambridge Univ. Press
YR 1999
UL https://www.ixtheo.de/Record/1817749358
AB The Jerusalem church called itself oι πτωχoι (Gal 2.10), probably from Isa 61.1, and held a prophetic Christology (Acts 3, 7). The Ebionites in Irenaeus and Epiphanius traced their name to Acts 2–5, and held Jesus to have been a prophetic figure, conceived naturally and possessed by the Spirit/‘Christ’ from baptism till before the passion. The same prophetic/possessionist Christology seems to be taught by Jewish Christians opposed by Justin and Ignatius: the ‘docetists’ believed that Christ (not Jesus) seemed to have suffered. It is also opposed by Polycarp, by John (especially in 1 John 4–5), by Paul (dramatically in 1 Cor 12.1–3), and in the pre-Marcan traditions.
DO 10.1017/S0028688598003324