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Interview on Trinities.org on How Jesus Became God Part 2

This is the second part of my interview withDale Tuggy, the host and co-executive producer of Trinities.org podcast. The podcasts hosts debates, interviews, and historical and contemporary perspectives on issues related to Christian theology. The interview was focused on How Jesus Became God, although in spots we go afield. Some listeners have thought that this was one of the more interesting of the interviews I’ve done. The interview took place on April 14th, 2014 via telephone.

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Modern Appearances of Jesus

QUESTION:

Why do you suppose no one has had visions of Jesus since the Gospels? And why have there been visions of Mary instead?

RESPONSE:

Another good question. The answer is: people *do* have visions of Jesus (all the time)! I could have approached the topic in a number of ways in my book, but this is what I say there:

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Jesus’ Appearances in the Modern World

And consider the modern appearances of Jesus. Some of these are documented by Phillip...

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Did Disciples Have Visions of Jesus?

I am ready and willing to begin answering questions readers have about my bookHow Jesus Became God. So feel free to ask away. Here is a good one I received today.

QUESTION:

I have enjoyed reading your interesting and thought provoking books, Jesus Interrupted and Forged.At the moment I am reading How Jesus Became God and would like to comment on some of the content of Chapter 5. To that point in the book, it seems to me you have been very careful to avoid speculation, but it seems to me that th...

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Jesus as God in the Synoptics (For members)

This, I believe, will be my final post on an issue that changed my mind about while doing the research for How Jesus Became God. This last one is a big one – for me, at least. And it’s not one that I develop at length in the book in any one place, since it covers a span of material. Here’s the deal:

Until a year ago I would have said – and frequently did say, in the classroom, in public lectures, and in my writings – that Jesus is portrayed as God in the Gospel of John but not, definitely not,...

Interview with Trinities.org on How Jesus Became God

I won’t be posting every single interview I do for How Jesus Became God (you will be glad to know); but different interviewers are asking different kinds of questions, and so a range of them doesn’t seem to be out of line. The one here is for a podcast called Trinities, hosted and produced by a fellow named Dale Tuggy. Dale is not completely sympathetic with all my views in the book, which makes the interview a bit more interesting from ones that simply lob me softballs. The interview took pl...

Christ as an Angel in Paul

I continue here with another post about something that I learned about or changed my mind about while writingHow Jesus Became God. I have to admit, that for many years I was puzzled by the apostle Paul – specifically his Christology. All the various things he said about Christ didn’t seem to add up to a coherent whole to me, even though I thought and thought and thought about it. But I finally found the piece that, when added to the puzzle, made it all fit together. I think now I can make sen...

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The Disciples Who Doubted the Resurrection

In this post I continue discussing some of the issues that I learned about for the first time, or changed my mind about, while writing How Jesus Became God. This post is about an issue that I figured out (for myself) for the first time; I don’t know that other scholars have pointed this out in quite the same way. (Or if they do, I’ve forgotten about it.) It is about the tradition scattered throughout the Gospels that the disciples “doubted” that Jesus was raised even when they had clear evide...