This outstanding 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. briLord Jesus Christi is a monumental work on earliest Christian devotion to Jesus, sure to replace Wilhelm Bousset's iKyrios Christosi 1913 as the standard work on the subject. Larry Hurtado, widely respected for his previous contributions to the study of the New Testament and Christian origins, offers the best view to date of how the first Christians saw and reverenced Jesus as divine. In assembling this compelling picture, Hurtado draws on a wide body of ancient sources, from Scripture and the writings of such figures as Ignatius of Antioch and Justin to apocryphal texts such as the iGospel of Thomasi and the iGospel of Truth.i br Hurtado considers such themes as early beliefs about Jesus' divine status and significance, but he also explores telling devotional practic