Markan christology: God-language for Jesus? (Exploring issues of monotheism and Hellenistic theocentricism in Mark's narrative genre)

It is possible to construct both "ontological" and "chronological" scales o n which Mark's christology is then plotted. In neither case, however, does the method correspond to Mark's own christological method, which uses narra tive to juxtapose pictures of Jesus as both "truly human" and "truly divine ". This essay explicates the "truly divine" side of Mark's presentation, ar guing that a number of Markan texts express a "high" christology without co mpromising either Jesus' humanity or a truly monotheistic doctrine of God.