NT Christology

Ten essential NT Christology books (in alphabetical order)

1. Richard Bauckham, God Crucified: Monotheism and Christology in the New Testament (Carlisle: Paternoster, 1998).


2. W. Bousset, Kyrios Christos (New York: Abingdon, 1970).


3. O. Cullmann, The Christology of the New Testament 2nd Ed., reprint, 1957 (London: SCM, 1963).


4. J.D.G. Dunn, Christology in the Making (London: SCM, 1980).


5. Mehrdad Fatehi, The Spirit’s Relation to the Risen Lord in Paul: An Examination of Its Christological Implications, WUNT II (Tübingen: Mohr, 2000).*


6. R.H. Fuller, The Foundations of New Testament Christology (New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1965).


7. F. Hahn, The Titles of Jesus in Christology: Their History in Early Christianity, reprint, 1963 (New York: World Publishing, 1969).


8. M. Hengel, The Son of God (Philadelphia: Fortress, 1976)


9. Larry W. Hurtado, Lord Jesus Christ: Devotion to Jesus in Earliest Christianity (Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 2003) - and his One God, One Lord (London: SCM, 1988). OK, so I’m cheating, this is two books ...


10. H.P. Liddon, The Divinity of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ (7th ed.). Eight lectures preached before the university of Oxford in 1866 (London: Rivingtons, 1875).

* Admittedly number 5 sticks out like a sore thumb, but the arguments developed in this superbly written book are important for all NT Christology, and, for me, take the discussions a step in the right direction.