Interview with Luke Janssen - Recovering Evangelicals Podcast

Interview with Luke Janssen – Recovering Evangelicals Podcast

“Last week, we looked at the first half of that paradoxical Christian expression: Jesus was ‘fully human and yet fully divine.’ We learned that the people who walked and talked with him found him to be a fully human, Jewish Messiah who would redeem Israel. But the Apostle Paul and the author(s) of the Gospel of John paint a very different portrait. John refers to Jesus as ‘the Logos’ (a universal, impersonal, cosmic force of reason) and as a universal Savior of all mankind (the Lamb of God that takes away the sins of the world). Likewise, Paul also refers to him as something much more than human. We asked a New Testament scholar  — Dr. Christopher Zoccali — to help us reconcile these two different perspectives. . . .”

Interview with Luke Janssen – Recovering Evangelicals Podcast

Christopher Zoccali