ABSTRACT
This chapter discusses Jesus of Nazareth. Paul had begun the process of connecting memory with reflection. Jesus, vividly present throughout his preaching, was flesh and blood as well as a transcendent 'Christ'. Jesus was made to pass comment on a world larger than he had known himself. His recommendations began to modify the communities of Paul's immediate successors. The gospels also provided fresh materials for the depiction of Jesus as Saviour, and Christians acquired as a result a coherent and widely shared view of their incarnate God. The Logos was both a component of God's mind and the expression of his creative will; something thought, something spoken; a principle, and an act. And Jesus of Nazareth was to be wholly identified with that Logos. The Logos did not merely assume a human form but became a human being, body, spirit and soul.
