The Son of God: A Biblical and Linguistic History
An exhaustive scholarly examination of the distinction between God the Father and Jesus Christ, focusing on Koine Greek analysis, early Christology, and the historical development of the Sonship doctrine.
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75 levels across 8 sections, about 150 minutes end to end, roughly 30 days at five minutes a day. It moves through Foundational Distinctions, The Greek Linguistic Landscape, Re-evaluating the Johannine Logos, Pauline Christology, The Synoptic Witness, Historical Development and Creeds, Addressing Counter-Arguments, and The Ontological Gap.
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Key ideas in The Son of God: A Biblical and Linguistic History
- The exclusivity of the Father's identity as the 'only true God' in John 17:3
- The limitation of the Son's knowledge as a permanent ontological boundary
- The subject-to-object relationship evidenced in Jesus's prayers
- The post-resurrection distinction of 'My God and your God'
- Christ must first reign until all enemies are under his feet
- The Son eventually hands over the kingdom to God the Father
- The Son himself becomes subject to the Father so that 'God may be all in all'
- The Father is the only entity excepted from subjection
- The ultimate subjection of the Son in the eschatological timeline
- The root 'genos' refers to a classification or category of being
- The root 'gennaō' refers to the biological or temporal act of birthing
- Monogenēs identifies Jesus as the 'only one of his kind' rather than the 'only one born'
- Abraham had an older biological son, Ishmael, making a 'biological only' definition impossible
- Isaac is monogenēs because he is the unique heir of the promise
- The term functions to elevate status and uniqueness, not to count offspring
- The etymological distinction between 'kind' and 'birth' in the term monogenēs
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How to learn The Son of God: A Biblical and Linguistic History, step by step
Go in order. 75 short levels across 8 sections, about 2 hours 30 minutes in all, five minutes a day.
- 1
Foundational Distinctions
- The Ontology of the Only True God
- 2
The Greek Linguistic Landscape
- Monogenēs: The Unique Son
- Theos vs. Ho Theos
- Kyrios and the Septuagint
- 3
Re-evaluating the Johannine Logos
- En Archē: The Logos in Context
- Unity of Purpose: 'I and the Father are One'
- The 'I Am' (Egō Eimi) Statements
- 4
Pauline Christology
- Prototokos: The Firstborn of Creation
- The Kenosis and Exaltation
- The One Mediator
- 5
The Synoptic Witness
- The Baptism and Divine Installation
- Gethsemane and the Conflict of Wills
- 6
Historical Development and Creeds
- The Pre-Nicene Subordinationism
- The Arian Controversy
- 7
Addressing Counter-Arguments
- Thomas’s Confession (John 20:28)
- The 'Great God' in Titus 2:13
- Hebrews 1:8 and the Throne
- 8
The Ontological Gap
- Agency and the Shaliah Principle
- The Final Subjection
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