Transfigured | Michael Bird - The Divinity of Jesus in Early Christianity @transfigured3673 | Uploaded January 2023 | Updated October 2024, 1 hour ago.
Dr. Michael Bird is Academic Dean and lecturer at Ridley College and an Anglican Priest. He is the author of multiple books and a well know research in early christianity and the New Testament. We talk about his new book "Jesus Among the gods". We also mention Troels Engberg-Pederson, Bart Ehrman, Andrew Perriman, Richard Bauckham, NT Wright, Larry Hurtado, Jeremiah Coogan, David Litwa, Justin Martyr, Athenagoras, Philo of Alexandria, Plato, Tertullian, Ignatius of Antioch, John Calvin, Marcellus of Ancyra, Athanasius of Alexandria, Paul of Samosata, Theodotus of Byzantium, and many more.

Link to podcast version of this episode: spotifyanchor-web.app.link/e/DgFv4iyIIwb

Dr. Bird's book "Jesus Among the gods": amazon.com/Jesus-among-gods-Christology-Greco-Roman/dp/1481316753
Dr. Bird's twitter: twitter.com/mbird12
Dr. Bird's substack: michaelfbird.substack.com
Dr. Bird's youtube channel: youtube.com/channel/UC21I7qYVHPsOzL9ujxiRWZA

00:00:00 - Introduction
00:03:15 - What is divinity?
00:11:40 - Two kinds of gods
00:19:15 - The NT on the divinity of Jesus
00:25:00 - The divinity of Jesus in the early church fathers
00:33:30 - Varieties of early Christian Christologies
00:40:10 - Adoptionists and Ebionites
00:47:00 - Arguments against Adoptionism
00:50:00 - Does Jesus have a God?
00:52:15 - Intermediary figures