From Amazon:
The claim at
the heart of the Christian faith is that Jesus of Nazareth was, and is,
God. But this is not what the original disciples believed during Jesus’s
lifetime—and it is not what Jesus claimed about himself. How Jesus Became God
tells the story of an idea that shaped Christianity, and of the
evolution of a belief that looked very different in the fourth century
than it did in the first.
A master
explainer of Christian history, texts, and traditions, Ehrman reveals
how an apocalyptic prophet from the backwaters of rural Galilee
crucified for crimes against the state came to be thought of as equal
with the one God Almighty, Creator of all things. But how did he move
from being a Jewish prophet to being God? In a book that took eight
years to research and write, Ehrman sketches Jesus’s transformation from
a human prophet to the Son of God exalted to divine status at his
resurrection. Only when some of Jesus’s followers had visions of him
after his death—alive again—did anyone come to think that he, the
prophet from Galilee, had become God. And what they meant by that was
not at all what people mean today.
Written for secular historians of religion and believers alike, How Jesus Became God
will engage anyone interested in the historical developments that led
to the affirmation at the heart of Christianity: Jesus was, and is, God.
Dr. Ehrman came to UNC in 1988 after four years of teaching at
Rutgers University. At UNC he has served as both the Director of
Graduate Studies and the Chair of the Department of Religious Studies.Interview:
http://thehumanist.com/multimedia/podcast/the-humanist-hour-98-how-jesus-became-god-with-dr-bart-ehrman
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