Jesus Christ for Contemporary Life. Don Schweitzer

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rel="nofollow" href="#ulink_9af9e125-119a-5c9e-90ce-3ef17e726062">40. Marion, “‘They Recognized Him,’” 145, 150–51.

      3 From Risen Christ to

       Second Person of the Trinity

      The Transition of the Early Church from Being

       a Sect Within Judaism to a Gentile Religion

      There were cultural dimensions to this transition. Second Temple Judaism, from which Christianity emerged, had long been influenced by Hellenistic culture. This influence is evident in varying degrees throughout the New Testament. But as the church became a Gentile religion a deeper encounter occurred between the gospel and Hellenism. The cultural and religious background in terms of which Paul understood Jesus was Hellenistic Judaism. As the church grew in numbers, fewer and fewer members had this kind of background. More and more, the church came to be formed of Gentiles who tried to understand the gospel in relation to the values and practices of their predominantly Hellenistic ethos.

      Appropriating Nicaea and Chalcedon Today


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