of the Son, 477; Leon-Dufour, Resurrection and the Message, 22.
31. Evans, Resurrection and the New Testament, 40; Perkins, Resurrection, 84, 102.
32. Pokorný, Genesis of Christology, 108.
33. Dibelius, Jesus, 141–44.
34. Carnley, Structure of Resurrection Belief, 169.
35. Schweitzer, “Dialectic of Understanding,” 252–55.
36. Taylor, “Gadamer on Human Sciences,” 141.
37. Niebuhr, Meaning of Revelation, 83.
38. Schüssler-Fiorenza, Foundational Theology, 33.
39. Carnley, Structure of Resurrection Belief, 260–61; Haight, Jesus, 144.
40. Marion, “‘They Recognized Him,’” 145, 150–51.
41. Moltmann, Crucified God, 173.
42. Moltmann, Way of Jesus Christ, 32–33.
43. Baum, “Reflections,” 13.
44. Marxsen, Resurrection; Spong, Resurrection.
45. Wright, Resurrection of the Son.
46. Johnson, She Who Is, 163.
47. Robinson, “Very Goddess and Very Man,” 119.
48. Catchpole, Resurrection People, 96, 134.
49. Tillich, Systematic Theology, 2:155–56.
50. Cone, God of the Oppressed, 114, 130–31.
51. Johnson, She Who Is, 161–162.
52. Käsemann, Commentary on Romans, 129.
53. Perkins, Resurrection, 318.
54. Ibid., 317.
55. Welker, “Resurrection and the Reign,” 8.
56. Schillebeeckx, Jesus, 395–96.
57. Kelly, Resurrection Effect, 15–16, 126–27.
58. Perkins, Resurrection, 318; see also Theissen and Merz, Historical Jesus, 508.
59. Tillich, Systematic Theology, 2:154.
60. Taylor, Executed God, 103.
61. Kelly, Resurrection Effect, 33, 59.
62. Moltmann, Theology of Hope, 179.
63. Ruether, Faith and Fratricide, 246–51.
64. Baum, “Afterword,” 143.
65. Moltmann, Way of Jesus Christ, 32–33.
66. Collins, Birth of the New Testament, 55.
67. Becker, Jesus of Nazareth, 362.
68. Perkins, Resurrection, 318.
69. Dunn, “Towards the Spirit of Christ,” 13–14.
70. Dahl, Jesus the Christ, 180.
71. Schillebeeckx, Jesus, 391.
72. Johnson, “Resurrection and Reality,” 1.
73. Moltmann, Way of Jesus Christ, 258–59.
74. Moltmann, Theology of Hope, 211.
75. Käsemann, New Testament Questions, 63.
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
In the centuries following Jesus’ public ministry and the rise of faith in his resurrection, the Christian church grew in numbers and spread throughout the Roman Empire. Though Christian faith was persecuted at times, it came to permeate Roman society. Constantine, who became sole ruler of the Roman Empire in 323 CE, was “in all practical respects” a Christian.1 He and Licinius granted Christianity legal equality with other religions of the empire in 313 CE. Christianity, originally a sect within Judaism, had become an influential and well established religion in the empire. The church was now
