Low Chritology

The "low Christology" or "adoptionist Christology" is the belief "that God exalted Jesus to be his Son by raising him from the dead",^[66] thereby raising him to "divine status".[web ^8] According to the "evolutionary model"^[67] or evolutionary theories,^[68] the Christological understanding of Jesus developed over time,^[69][70][71] as witnessed in the Gospels,^[63] with the earliest Christians believing that Jesus was a human who was exalted, or else adopted as God's Son,^[72][73] when he was resurrected.^[71][74] Later beliefs shifted the exaltation to his baptism, birth, and subsequently to the idea of his pre-existence, as witnessed in the Gospel of John.^[71] This "evolutionary model" was proposed by proponents of the Religionsgeschichtliche Schule, especially Wilhelm Bousset's influential Kyrios Christos (1913).^[72] This evolutionary model was very influential, and the "low Christology" has long been regarded as the oldest Christology.^[75]