Pondering the Sinlessness of Jesus Christ: Moral Christologies and the Witness of Scripture

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Abstract: Traditional claims about the sinlessness of Jesus Christ are often said to be problematic, yet the instinct to construct moral Christologies has remained very powerful in modern theology. The models that typically emerge in modernity face major difficulties. This article seeks to reorient the discussion of sinlessness in biblical terms, and suggests that scripture's witness points toward an account of the moral character of Jesus as grounded specifically in inner‐divine relations rather than in any sort of idealism. Such a trinitarian account also raises questions about some conventional approaches to the metaphysics of sinlessness.

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