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7 lip 2022 · Significant effort is given to tracing the antecedents of this Christology in the angels and divine hypostases of the Hebrew Bible and Second Temple Jewish literature. The primary content of this volume is the presentation of pre-150 CE textual evidence of Angelomorphic Christology.
There is sufficient evidence among early Jewish Christian writings of the association of Christ with the notions that are in the OT connected with angels for us to postulate an ‘angelomorphic’ Christology.
6 kwi 2012 · It picks up the notion of Christ’s journey to the right hand of God from first-century Christology and embellishes it with a formal description of pre-existence, commission, and descent which the authors composed in the light of Jewish apocalypticism.
As for “angelomorphic,” this term, coined by Jean Daniélou, is now widely used by scholars writing on the emergence of christology.6 I follow Crispin Fletcher-Louis’s definition and use it “wherever there are signs that an individual or community possesses specifically angelic characteristics or status, though for whom identity cannot be reduced...
11 lip 2017 · Angels receive fairly short shrift in most twentieth- and twenty-first-century theology, but in late antique Christianity they certainly were “a thing,” if by “a thing” we mean an essential part of religious discourse, manifest in textual and material sources that testify to the significance of angels in theological speculation, popular piety, a...
18 sie 2010 · S everal recent studies have shown that a common feature in second-century theological accounts containing binitarian logic 1 is the presence of an angelomorphic Pneumatology or Christology. 2 In these cases angelomorphism contributes towards a failure to distinguish adequately between the identity, the activity, or both the identity and activit...
angelomorphic pneumatologies and Christologies in figures and texts like the Ascension of Isaiah? In her recent monograph, Angels in Late Ancient Christianity, also explores how angels were "a thing" for early Christians, but, theological approach, she advocates a socio-cultural methodology.
