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Five Images of Christ in the Postapostolic Age JAMES L. PAPANDREA InterVarsity Press P.O. Box 1400, Downers Grove, IL 60515-1426 ivpress.com [email protected] ©2016 by James L. Papandrea All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced in any form without written permission from InterVarsity Press. InterVarsity Press ® is the book-publishing division of InterVarsity Christian Fellowship/USA®, a movement of students and faculty active on campus at hundreds of universities, colleges and schools of nursing in the United States of America, and a member movement of the International Fellowship of Evangelical Students. For information about local and regional activities, visit intervarsity.org. Scripture quotations, unless otherwise noted, are from the New Revised Standard Version of the Bible, copyright 1989 by the Division of Christian Education of the National Council of the Churches of Christ in the USA. Used by permission. All rights reserved. Cover design: Cindy Kiple Interior design: Beth McGill Images: Christ in Majesty, © Odessa Fine Arts Museum, Ukraine / Bridgeman Images ISBN 978-0-8308-9972-2 (digital) ISBN 978-0-8308-5127-0 (print) Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Names: Papandrea, James L., 1963- author. Title: The earliest Christologies : five images of Christ in the postapostolic age / James L. Papandrea. Description: Downers Grove : InterVarsity Press, 2016. | Includes index. Identifiers: LCCN 2015050890 (print) | LCCN 2016001644 (ebook) | ISBN 9780830851270 (pbk. : alk. paper) | ISBN 9780830899722 (eBook) Subjects: LCSH: Jesus Christ—History of doctrines—Early church, ca. 30-600. Classification: LCC BT198 .P365 2016 (print) | LCC BT198 (ebook) | DDC 232.09/015—dc23 LC record available at http://lccn.loc.gov/2015050890 This book is dedicated to my brothers from other mothers, the men whom I call my lifelong friends and who continue to inspire me to be a better man: Mike Aquilina, Joe Dilillo, Joe Groshek, Paul Jarzembowski, George Kalantzis, Graziano Marcheschi, Glenn Murray and Rich Vetrano. As iron sharpens iron, so man sharpens his fellow man. Proverbs 27:17 C ONTENTS Acknowledgments 9 1 Five Images of Christ in the Postapostolic Age 11 2 Christ as Angel: Angel Adoptionism 23 3 Christ as Prophet: Spirit Adoptionism 33 4 Christ as Phantom: Docetism and Docetic Gnosticism 45 5 Christ as Cosmic Mind: Hybrid Gnosticism 67 6 Christ as Word: Logos Christology 85 7 What, Then, Is Orthodoxy? 105 Chart: Christology Continuum 129 Subject Index 131 Scripture Index 133 Praise for The Earliest Christologies 134 About the Author 135 Other Books by James Papandrea 136 More Titles from InterVarsity Press 137 IVP Academic Textbook Selector 138 A CKNOWLEDGMENTS T his book (or, in fact, my career) would not have been possible without the people who taught me church history and gave me a love for the church and her tradition. I especially want to thank my first church history professor, James E. Bradley of Fuller Theological Seminary, and my dissertation advisors, Dennis Groh and Robert Jewett of Garrett-Evangelical Theological Seminary. I would also like to thank my colleagues and students at Garrett-Evangelical for their support and trust, as well as my research assistant, Kay Hardiman, who helped with the subject index.
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