Date of Award

1900

Degree Type

Master's Essay - Restricted

Degree Name

Master of Arts (MA)

Department

Theology

Abstract

The central problem in Christianity is the problem of Christ. Upon the understanding of the answer to his own question, "Who do you say that I am?" rests the entire meaning of Christian faith and the entire structure of Christian theology. The aim of this paper is a very limited one: to analyze the text of Philippians 2.6-11 in the light of its Christological values as they are presented in F.X. Durrwell's The Resurrection and D.M. Stanley's Christ's Resurrection in Pauline Soteriology, to relate some other New Testament texts to the main text under consideration, and thus to come to some Christological insights and conclusions. These insights and conclusions will be seen necessarily from the vantage point of the resurrection, for this is the vantage point from which the two exegetical works under consideration are written. Thus the aim of this paper is to come to a partial answer to Christ's own question about who he is by using as a springboard the richly Christological text of Philippians 2.6-11 and by viewing the Christological question from the point of view of its finality, the resurrection.

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