A construção da noção de divindade de Jesus: uma perspectiva baseada na interpretação de Mc 14:61-62, Mt 26:63-64 e Lc 22:67-70

Abstract

The understanding of the process of divinization of Jesus still remains a challenge, but the beginning of this path may be in the association of the resurrected Jesus in a spiritual body with the heavenly son of the man of Dn 7, still in the 1st century AD. From the contributions of historical-critics methods, complemented by sociological, literary and cultural analyses, this research turns to the synoptic gospels and to previous and contemporary texts, such as the Jewish Apocalyptic, aiming to find evidence that already point to an exaltation of Jesus to a heavenly position. The highlighted pericope, Mk 14:61-62, Mt 26:63-64 and Lk 22:67-70, brings together three of the future christological titles, “son of God”, “Christ”/“Messiah” and “son of man”, which carry the expectations of the first christians about their master, already indicating his differentiated condition. While the first two highlight Jesus' specialty, the third, associated with the figure of Daniel and 1 Enoch, calls attention to his heavenly, divinized condition. Jesus has been related to the apocalyptic son of man only in his future and expected return to earth, however, it is possible to associate him already in his resurrected condition, not in a body of flesh, but in a body that resembles that of this pre-existing son of man, in angelomorphic condition. Understanding the resurrection of Jesus in this way, from the very jewish bases, his identification with the heavenly son of the man becomes more coherent, which places him in a divinized position even before the theological constructions of the following centuries.