The question concerning the identity and divinity of Christ is one born and raised in controversy. Ever since it has been asked it has generated a wide mixture of responses, ranging from physical violence and vicious debate to<br>worship and praise, with not just a little painfully subtle metaphysical theorising on the way. Debate continues in many quarters, especially within the world of Pauline scholarship which, for the last few decades, has witnessed a resurgence of dispute as to whether Paul’s Christology should be properly understood as ‘divine’. And these are not peripheral concerns for if those who deny a Pauline divine-Christology are correct, perhaps some difficult questions need to be fearlessly pursued and not sidestepped in the name of unthinking orthodoxy. This is all the more true as Paul has traditionally been understood to have authored over half of what became the canon of the New Testament. What is more, it is also arguably fair to claim that without an understanding of what Paul thought about Christ, one is not likely to understand much about Paul at all. Indeed, it can be maintained that a clearer grasp of Paul’s Christology will speak into contemporary debates concerning justification. On top of this, given that the (at least, undisputed) Pauline corpus is the earliest layer of NT literature, the question of whether Pauline Christology is divine is of great significance for one’s understanding of the development of early Christology generally, and thus the history of early Christianity.

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