At the beginning of his Epistle to the Romans, Paul resorts to a traditional christology according to which Jesus, in his resurrection-exaltation, receives transcendent titles attributed to him by the Christians. We observe traces of that christology in other passages of the New Testament. Yet neither Paul in Romans nor the other writers of the New Testament - see Luke in Acts 2, 36; 13, 33, or Mark in the narrative of Christ's baptism - reproduce those archaic views without mentioning the context which modifies them. At that stage, there is no longer any trace of a primitive «adoptianism» which the developing of christological thought has already neutralised, while absorbing it.
