J. R. Daniel Kirk | Eerdmans Author Interview Series

Author of the new book A MAN ATTESTED BY GOD: THE HUMAN JESUS OF THE SYNOPTIC GOSPELS, a thought-provoking alternative perspective on the full humanity of Jesus Christ, J. R. Daniel Kirk holds a PhD in New Testament from Duke University and has taught at North Carolina State University, St. Joseph's University, Eastern College, and Fuller Theological Seminary.

In A Man Attested by God J. R. Daniel Kirk presents a comprehensive defense of the thesis that the Synoptic Gospels present Jesus not as divine but as an idealized human figure.

Counterbalancing the recent trend toward early high Christology in such scholars as Richard Bauckham, Simon Gathercole, and Richard Hays, Kirk here thoroughly unpacks the humanity of Jesus as understood by Gospel writers whose language is rooted in the religious and literary context of early Judaism. Without dismissing divine Christologies out of hand, Kirk argues that idealized human Christology is the best way to read the Synoptic Gospels, and he explores Jesus as exorcist and miracle worker within the framework of his humanity.

With wide-ranging exegetical and theological insight that sheds startling new light on familiar Gospel texts, A Man Attested by God offers up-to-date, provocative scholarship that will have to be reckoned with.

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Interviewer: Rachel Bomberger
Producer, Cinematographer, and Editor: Ahna Ziegler

[benrollins]

I so appreciate this honest analysis of the synoptic gospels, which illustrate Jesus in the Jewish context in which he lived and in which these gospels were written!

[FrostinthePines]

Excellent book and delightful interview

[unitarianapologetics]

Jesus did not pre-exist nor is he “divine”. Love the book, though.

[BikiniDeathSquad]

LAME. I don't want a human Jesus. I want a super-human one, not unlike the one we got.