This article claims that Larry Hurtado's work on Christology remains an evolutionary, multi-stage model, and is historically problematic. He believes Hurtado overstates the case for Jewish opposition to Christ-devotion, minimizes the ethical particularity of earliest Christianity. His claim that religious experiences gave the decisive impetus to Christ-devotion does not reckon adequately with the implications of social-science study.

This article is a continuation of a study of Lessing's contribution to the understanding of revelation. Particular attention is given to his "Education of the Human Race" (1780). Lessing brought a new scientific approach to revelation.

What is the relation between revelation and history? The article indicates how Lessing responded to the near-veneration of the Bible by the Protestantism of the eighteenth century in Germany time by placing a great emphasis on ethics. Particular attention is given to Lessing's controversy with Goeze.

The author discusses the higher critical interpretation of Scripture. He looks at three pioneers in this regard: Benedict Spinoza, Herman Samuel Reimarus and Gotthold Lessing. He concludes by looking at the historical interpretation of Scripture as advanced by Geerhardus Vos.