Jesus Is Lord: Christology Yesterday and Today

by Donald Macleod

Publisher:

Christian Focus

, 2000

Overview

The Expository Times once contained a famous article by Vincent Taylor asking the question "Does the New Testament call Jesus God?" Twenty years before Rudolf Bultmann said, "In describing Christ as God the New Testament still exercises great restraint." Taylor's conclusion was that the only clear statement of Jesus' deity was Thomas' words "My Lord and my God." In a later article in The Expository Times Dr. Michael Austin dismissed even this. His conclusion? "The New Testament makes no unambiguous claim to Jesus' divinity." All this will come as a considerable surprise to ordinary readers of the New Testament!

Donald Macleod is recognized as one of the leading theologians alive. He is also able to explain complex thoughts with simplicity and clarity. This is his contribution to the debate on Christology. It builds on his previous writings about the Godhead and is a new work of international academic standing that is a rigorous theological defense of Christ's deity.

Contents

Top Highlights

“Thirdly, lordship involves authority: not merely authority as a teacher but authority in the sense of imperium.” (Page 48)

“Thirdly, the suffering of the Son of Man has redemptive significance” (Page 71)

“Above all, however, imperium is linked to the idea of Christ as King” (Page 49)

“‘Form,’ he wrote, ‘is a term which expresses the sum of those characterising qualities which make a thing the precise thing that it is.… When our Lord is said to be ‘in the form of God,’ therefore, he is declared in the most express manner possible, to be all that God is, to possess the whole fulness of the attributes which make God God.’” (Page 22)

“Fourthly, the Son of Man will one day be vindicated and glorified” (Page 72)

Endorsements

[Jesus is Lord is] both intellectually satisfying and spiritually enriching.

—Andy Bathgate, SU, Glasgow, Themelios

Product Details

• Title: Jesus Is Lord: Christology Yesterday and Today
• Author: Donald Macleod
• Publisher: Christian Focus
• Print Publication Date: 2000
• Logos Release Date: 2010
• Language: English
• Resources: 1
• Format: Digital › Logos Research Edition
• Subjects: Jesus Christ › History of doctrines; Jesus Christ › Person and offices
• Resource ID: LLS:JESUSCHRSTLGY
• Resource Type: Monograph
• Metadata Last Updated: 2022-02-12T07:23:38Z

About Donald Macleod

Donald Macleod (MA, University of Glasgow; DD, Westminster Theological Seminary), now retired, served as professor and chair of systematic theology at the Free Church of Scotland College in Edinburgh and also as the school's principal. He pastored Kilmallie Free Church for six years and also served at Patrick Highland Free Church, a bi-lingual congregation in Glasgow, Scotland. He is well known as a previous editor of The Monthly Record of the Free Church and as a columnist in the West Highland Free Press and The Observer newspaper.

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