A small book about Jesus' understanding of his self, his nature. Did Jesus believe he was what the Creeds said he was? Raymond E. Brown says that the answer would be, not exactly. Can we tell from the Gospel accounts what Jesus understood about his nature, human or devine or both. In one hundred very precise and exact pages Brown examines what we can know about that self understanding.

This book was required reading when I was a student at The Church Divinity School of the Pacific in Berkeley, California in 1974. With all the readings I had to get through in that first year of Theological study I don't think I got to the end of this book until now. While this book was published in 1967, the year I finished high school, it still reads as a contemporary work. ( )

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