Sublime

Derrida

Turning to christology, I continue to focus on Jesus Christ as the starting point for Christian thinking about God. He defines Christian identity in faith and practice. Because I am a Christian, my theological reflections start with Jesus.

By any standards this is a radical vision—certainly for the early Christian community itself, which at that time was still loyal to the basic principles of Judaism and looked on Paul as a dangerous schismatic. For them, the key element of their belief was that the Messiah had come—and by Messiah they meant what Jews understood by the term— namely,

At the cross, the most powerful man who ever lived submitted to the most brutal death ever died, to save the powerless.

Crossan uses the phrase ‘world-negating’ along with this broader sense of ‘eschatological’, and (as we shall see presently) argues that Jesus belonged with a strictly non-apocalyptic sapiential ‘eschatology’.

Some of the most recognizable evidential apologists of our time include John Warwick Montgomery

sources. Jesus of Nazareth is referred to in a range of ancient sources inside and outside the New Testament, including Christian, Roman, and Jewish sources.[1]

Even though it is not found in the Bible, one of the cornerstones of Christianity is the doctrine of the Trinity, introduced by the Gaulish Bishop Saint Hilary of Poitiers in the third century.