Word: sonship
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...acknowledges the rabbi's point that Jesus is offering the Jews a transformation rather than a continuation of the Torah but maintains that the trade-off is worth it, provided Jesus is not merely "a liberal reform rabbi" but "the Son." That Neusner and other Jews regard that very Sonship as a deal breaker does not bother him much. "It would be good for the Christian world to look respectfully at this obedience of Israel," he writes, "and thus to appreciate better the great commandments" as universalized by Jesus...
...very first Christians thought that Jesus had become God's Son at his Resurrection; Mark, the first Gospel written, seemed to locate the moment at his baptism in the Jordan; and it is only by the time that Matthew and Luke were writing that believers had dated his Sonship to before his birth. Thus, if Mary was the eyewitness source for the Holy Spirit's direct involvement in Jesus' birth (and who else could it be?), her testimony was lost to Christians for half a century before Luke somehow picked it up. Weighing this, facts like Jesus' relatives' seeming ignorance...
More broadly, Sobrino espouses an evolutionary view of Jesus' sonship. Instead of saying that Jesus is the Son of God, Sobrino writes that he "gradually fashioned himself into the Son of God, became the Son of God." As the Son, Jesus "reveals the way to the Father, not the Father himself," through his example of obedience to God's mission. Sobrino admits that Jesus' "becoming" God sounds like the old heresy of Adoptionism, but he still insists that his Christology "is in accord with the dogmatic formulas...
...Father Obey, Elijah of the Fiery Chariot, St. John the Vine, and Joe World, among many others, the heavenly host could hardly muster enough worshipers to go around. So George, an itinerant lawn mower and hedge clipper from Georgia, settled for an apprentice apostleship - a "God in the Sonship Degree" - with Father Jehovia, a former Pittsburgh steelworker who had a cult in Baltimore...
Those misunderstandings Cragg traces to the initial fact that Mohammed had no thorough acquaintance with the Bible. He was ignorant of the meaning of the Christian doctrine of the Trinity and the sonship of Christ. To him Christ seemed a rival of the One God, and that Mohammed could not accept. Accordingly he reduced Christ to the status of one prophet among many and gave him a few brief pages in the Koran. Even today Moslems refuse to consider Christianity a monotheistic faith because of this early misreading of Christ. Nor could Mohammed, for whom it was unthinkable that...