Review of 'How Jesus Became God : the Exaltation of a Jewish Preacher from Galilee' on 'Goodreads'
4 stars
A great overview of the theological disputes along the path to the Christian belief that Jesus is the same as God. A bit repetitious in some parts, and perhaps not something that religious fundamentalists will appreciate due to the author's stated agnostic beliefs and the thesis that the historical Jesus did not believe himself to be God, nor did his followers until decades after Jesus' resurrection. These points, while I've heard them from multiple biblical scholars, still seem threatening to the bulk of Christian believers, whose faith is founded on the dubiously coherent understanding of Jesus as simultaneously "fully man" and "fully God," part of a Trinity of divine beings that is somehow actually just one God, that is expounded in the Nicean creed.
