R. B. Jamieson. The Paradox of Sonship: Christology in the Epistle to the Hebrews. Studies in Christian Doctrine and Scripture. InterVarsity Press, 2021. 195 pp. ISBN 978-0-8308-4886-7. $27.00 paper.
Jamison’s book is an excellent resource for a study of Hebrews–you can walk through the Hebrews epistle with me in my monthly blog.
Dr. R. B. Jamieson contends Hebrews and the ecumenical creeds “tell essentially the same story about the same Jesus” (43). Jamieson is a Ph.D. graduate of Cambridge University serving as associate pastor at Capitol Hill Baptist Church. His six classical christological concepts presented in The Paradox of Sonship reconcile the Hebrews Epistle with the ecumenical creeds to retrieve a robust elaboration of the Son’s identity and the story of salvation. His argument for Jesus as the eternal Son who became the Messianic Son upon humiliation and exaltation is pushed forward incrementally through the proof of three thesis statements.
There are two significant components in the body of Jamieson’s book. The first is his Six Classical Christological Concepts and Reading Strategies which he introduces in chapter one. The second is the three theses he presents and defends in chapters two, four, and five. Jamieson’s strategy is to harvest information about the Son from a close reading of Hebrews using the six concepts and then pragmatically apply that information to the defense of his three thesis statements. The “Christological Toolkit” provided across an Introduction, five chapters, and a Conclusion illuminate the same portrait of Christ in the Hebrews Epistle as the one understood from the ecumenical creeds…
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