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Dustin Smith | New Testament Wisdom Christology | Unitarian Christian Alliance Conference 2024

http://www.eltondp.com Shot on a Sony FX6 with Sony 100-300mm lens and two Sony FX30's with Sony 18-105mm f4 lenses. Graded with Phantom LUTs. Edited in Final Cut Pro X. Dr. Dustin Smith is a New Testament scholar and lecturer and researcher at Spartanburg Methodist College in South Carolina. He earned his Ph.D. in Religion from Bethany Seminary and he has edited or authored six books including 'Wisdom Christology in the Gospel of John', 'The Son of God: 3 Views of the Identity of Jesus', and 'Paradoxical Conquering in the Apocalypse of John.' He is the host of the Biblical Unitarian Podcast, a weekly series focusing on the oneness of God and the humanity of Jesus. Dr. Dustin Smith currently lives with his family in South Carolina. "My presentation today is on New Testament portrayals of wisdom Christology and their meaning, functions, and purpose. How many of you have heard a Sunday sermon on wisdom Christology? None of you? Now you know why I'm presenting on this. My impression is that many of us have learned our Christology from previous authors of previous theologians and they typically like to describe Jesus in terms of being the Son of God, Son of Man, Messiah, Savior, and Lord. But thinking about Jesus in terms of being Wisdom has not been a popular study in our circles. Yet, scholars have known about it for over a hundred years. Why is it that scholarship seems to talk very casually about wisdom Christology in scholarly literature, but it hasn't trickled down to the churches? Well, let's work on alleviating that particular problem. What is wisdom Christology? When I do my podcast, I like to define my terms to make sure we are all on the same page. Here's the definition that I am going to give: 'Wisdom Christology is the portrayal of the person of Jesus that takes the roles, characteristics, attributes, and functions formerly used to describe the wisdom of God and applies them to the person of Jesus Christ.' Go it? We're all good? Okay. So how does this work out in New Testament Christology? When you open your Bible, you have your Old Testament - also known as the 'Hebrew Bible' - and you have your New Testament. But as we all know, the New Testament builds on top of the Old Testament. So, the bottom layer - the foundation - consists of Old Testament portrayals of God's wisdom. That's mostly found in Job 28, Psalm 104, and a lot of the Book of Proverbs. One reason why wisdom Christology is not well known is that Protestants have been told that any books outside of the Bible are the boogeymen and you're not supposed to read those. However, many are valuable literature helpful in setting the New Testament writings in their historical context. So, there is this collection of books written between the Old Testament and the New Testament, called the intertestamental literature. This is where they develop and display the impact of Job, Psalms, and Proverbs in the Jewish books of Sirach, Baruch, and Wisdom of Solomon. For the record, I'm not saying that these books are inspired and you need to add them to your canon. I'm saying that these are helpful Jewish works that have impacted the writers of the New Tesatment and they help us to understand the words and sayings of Jesus. Building on top of all of this is New Testament wisdom Christology. The New Testament writers are living and breathing the air in which a lot of people are talking and speculating about God's wisdom, without necessarily proving that the New Testament authors have read other authors. Some of the other authors who wrote around the same time as the New Testament authors and whom the New Testament authors may or may not have been familiar with include Philo of Alexandria, 1 Enoch, the Qumran documents also known as the Dead Sea Scrolls, and the Jewish Targums which are difficult to date but may or may not have existed in the first century. So whether or not the New Testament authors actually read any of these works, we can at least say that these works are in the air, so to speak, that is, they are part of the Jewish culture around the first century and may have influenced how the New Testament authors described the person of Jesus Christ. First, we need to look at the Judaism of the Second Temple Period and get that context before we look at the New Testament writings. Then we will work through the New Testament writings chronologically, starting with the Pauline wisdom Christology, then moving to the Letter to the Hebrews, then Mark's wisdom Christology, then Matthew and Luke's wisdom Christology, and finally Johannine wisdom Christology. By the end of this lecture, hopefully I will have persuaded you that wisdom Christology can be found in Matthew, Mark, Luke, John, 1 Corinthians, 2 Corinthians, Galatians, Ephesians, Colossians, and Hebrews.... Job 28 has this very interesting poetic description of trying to find God's wisdom: 'But where can wisdom be found? Where is the place of understanding?'" -Dr. Dustin Smith, Ph.D.