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4 sty 2011 · He shows that more than one form of angel or angelomorphic Christology was current in early Christianity and that Michael traditions in particular provided a conceptual framework in which Christ's heavenly significance was understood.
Matthias Reinhard Hoffmann identifies an angelomorphic portrait of Christ in certain passages of Revelation and provides possible reasons for the inclusion of an angelomorphic Christology: Angelomorphic Christology is not regarded as an isolated christological concept.
Building on John R. Levison’s study on «The Angelic Spirit in Early Judaism», which documented the widespread use of the term «spirit» as a designation for an angelic presence, this essay argues the presence of an «angelomorphic Pneumatology» in three early Christian sources: the book of Revelation, the Shepherd of Hermas, and Clement ...
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.
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...
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.
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.
