My afternoon workshop at the European Leadership Forum 2018 on 'Defending an Early High Christology from Archaeology and New Testament Letters (with special reference to the Epistle of James).' The idea that Jesus was divine was not invented at the Council of Nicea in the fourth century (a claim one can disprove from archaeological finds alone), nor was it a second century idea that seeped into Christianity from pagan mythology. Rather, it was an idea that burst upon the first century religious landscape amongst the eyewitness generation of Jewish followers of Jesus, as shown by the multiple independent witness of the first century New Testament letters and the early sources they quote. I pay particular attention to the Epistle of James, arguing that a) it pre-dates the Jewish war and could be as early as c. 45 A.D, b) that whoever wrote it was a Jew writing to Jews, c) that it was probably written by James the (half) brother of Jesus - a man who'd formerly been sceptical about Jesus' claims, and that the best explanation of this data given Jesus' embarrassing crucifixion is that Jesus himself laid claim to divinity and rose from the dead in evidence of this claim.
ELF 2023: Can We Believe In God In An Age of Science? Cosmic Fine Tuning (Part Five of Seven)
ELF 2023: Can We Believe In God In An Age of Science? The Big Bang (Part Four of Seven)
ELF 2023: Can We Believe In God In An Age of Science? Mind & Body (Part Three of Seven)
ELF 2023: Can We Believe In God In An Age of Science? Debunking the Conflict Thesis (Part Two of Seven)
ELF 2023: Can We Believe In God In An Age of Science? Introduction (Part One of Seven)
ELF 2023: Evidence for Old Testament History: From Abraham to Solomon
ELF 2023: Leading and Following in the Footsteps of Christ
Grill A Philosopher: Peter S. Williams
Veritas 2022: Outgrowing God? Learning from Dawkins’s Failed Arguments
Veritas 2022: Four Reasons Why God Won’t Go Away
Outgrowing God? An Introduction (2022)
Apologetics in 3D (2022)
A Dialogue on the Contemporary Relevance of Acts 26
Faith & Rationality (Oslo, 2022)
Arguing for God (Oslo, 2022)
Leadership in 3D: Paper Presentation in Oslo
Organ Donation excerpt from Radio Solent featuring my parents
Interview about the new One Semester Programme in Christian Apologetics from NLA University College
The One Semester Programme in Christian Apologetics at NLA University College - An Introduction
ELF 2022: Can We Believe In God In An Age Of Science? Post Conference Seminar (Parts One - Six)
Create your
podcast in
minutes
It is Free
The Hello Heaven Podcast
Devoted To Prayer
Cast The Word
Let Me Be Frank | Bishop Frank Caggiano’s Podcast | Diocese of Bridgeport, CT
The Bible Recap
BardsFM