[B-Greek] QEOS a proper name?

Ron Fay roncfay at hotmail.com
Tue Jul 27 00:13:44 EDT 2004


>
>Dear Friends, did QEOS ever achieve a proper name status in the Pauline 
>letters ( I am including here the "disputed letters" as well) as a 
>reference to the Father? I understand that CHRISTOS was used by Paul as a 
>proper name for Jesus, although it was originally titular (as "the anointed 
>one"). If this is the case, does the presence of the article with QEOS and 
>CHRISTOS render these words titular rather than proper names? Many thanks.
>
>Tony Costa


I would argue that it never took on the status of a name, but it was likely 
a title (thus allowing for a broadening of meaning). See Bacukham's "God 
Crucified: Monotheism and Christology in the New Testament." The Didsbury 
Lectures, 1996. Carlisle: Paternoster, 1998. (US edition: Grand Rapids: 
Eerdmans, 1999), though he only has discussion of a few passages.

If anyone has any specific resources on this, I'd love to know as I am oging 
to be doing some research in this area.

- Ron Fay

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Ron Fay
Ph. D. student and New Testament Fellow
Trinity Evangelical Divinity School
Deerfield, IL.
roncfay at hotmail.com

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