Recovering Evangelicals

#215 – Jesus: Cosmic Deity?

Recovering Evangelicals

Show Notes

Paul and John (and modern Evangelicals) seem to paint a different portrait of Jesus than all the others who actually walked and talked with him. Jesus of Nazareth as … the Logos? [image created by Andrew … thanks Andrew!] Last week, we looked at the first half of that paradoxical Christian expression: Jesus was “fully […]

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