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Larry Hurtado has demonstrated the ‘dyadic’ worship of God and Jesus in first-century Christian gatherings. But what about individual Christians in the first few centuries after the death of Jesus? This essay explores a key source that has not been much studied in this connection: the Acta martyrum. In these texts, we read of various Christians who, when interrogated by Roman judges, make certain statements about God and Christ. It is the aim of this essay to examine these Acta in order to see what they tell us about individual beliefs in God and Christ in the long second century.
Abstract
Larry Hurtado has demonstrated the ‘dyadic’ worship of God and Jesus in first-century Christian gatherings. But what about individual Christians in the first few centuries after the death of Jesus? This essay explores a key source that has not been much studied in this connection: the Acta martyrum. In these texts, we read of various Christians who, when interrogated by Roman judges, make certain statements about God and Christ. It is the aim of this essay to examine these Acta in order to see what they tell us about individual beliefs in God and Christ in the long second century.