God's Equal What Can We Know About Jesus' Self-Understanding?

An examination of Jesus' claims in the gospels to be 'God's Equal' with reference to the historical Jesus and the Christology of the early church.

Introduction/God's Victorious Intervention: Jesus and the Kingdom of God/Doing the Works of God: Jesus' Miracles/God's Pardon: Jesus and Forgiveness/Passing God's Judgment: Jesus as the Eschatological Judge/Speaking with God's Authority: Jesus and the Law/Issuing God's Call: Jesus' Relationship to His Disciples/God's Epithets: Jesus' Metaphorical Self-Descriptions/Jesus and Other Mediatory Figures in Second Temple Judaism/The Unique Son of God: Subordinate and Equal/Jesus as the Son of Man/God's New Temple/Conclusion