Includes bibliographical references (pages 655-702) and index.

Christ-Devotion -- A New religionsgeschichtliche Schule? -- Forces and Factors -- Jewish Monotheism -- Was Jewish Religion Really Monotheistic? -- The Nature of Jewish Monotheism -- Monotheism in the New Testament -- The Effects of Monotheism on Christ-Devotion -- Jesus -- Religious Experience -- Revelatory Experiences in the New Testament -- The Religious Environment -- Early Pauline Christianity -- Where to Begin? -- Key Personal Factors -- Paul's Jewishness -- Paul the Convert -- The Gentile Mission -- Christological Language and Themes -- Jesus as "Christ" -- Jesus' Divine Sonship -- Jesus as Lord -- Preexistence -- Jesus' Redemptive Death and Resurrection -- Jesus as Example -- Binitarian Worship -- Early Origins -- Worship -- Binitarian -- Judean Jewish Christianity -- Pauline Evidence -- Paul's Acquaintance with Judean Christianity -- A Conspicuous Silence -- Judean Christian Tradition in Paul's Letters -- Judean Christ-Devotion in Acts -- Christological Categories -- Devotional Practice -- Hellenists and Hebrews -- Hellenists as "Proto-Paulinists" -- Hellenists as Jewish Christians -- Q and Early Devotion to Jesus -- Untenable Options -- Kloppenborg's View of Q's Christology -- Historical Plausibility -- An Inductive Approach -- Is Q Peculiar? -- The Argument from Silence -- Devotion to Jesus in Q -- Centrality of Jesus -- Q's Narrative World and Jesus -- Jesus the Polarizing Issue -- Christological Terms -- Religious Life in Q -- Jesus Books -- Shared Features of the Canonical Gospels.

"This book provides an in-depth historical study of the place of Jesus in the religious life, beliefs, and worship of Christians from the beginnings of the Christian movement down to the late second century."--Jacket.