WORD TO the WISE: Wisdom Christology and One God of Israel in New Testament

What if the New Testament's highest claims about Jesus do not require us to imagine a second divine person beside the God of Israel?In Word to the Wise, Brandon J. Nero traces the biblical and Jewish patterns behind the New Testament's language of the Word, Wisdom, Glory, Name, Spirit, and divine Presence. Moving from Israel's Wisdom literature and Second Temple Jewish thought into the Gospel of John, Paul's letters, Hebrews, and Revelation, this book argues that these expressions reveal the active self-disclosure of the one God rather than separate eternal persons within the Godhead.With careful attention to Scripture, ancient Near Eastern backgrounds, Jewish interpretation, early Christian thought, and modern scholarship, Nero examines key passages such as Proverbs 8, John 1, Colossians 1, Hebrews 1, and 1 Corinthians 8:6. He contends that Jesus Christ is not a lesser divine intermediary, nor merely one person among three coequal persons, but the full and visible embodiment of the one God's eternal self-expression.Written for pastors, students, teachers, and serious readers of Scripture, Word to the Wise offers a fresh and rigorous case for Wisdom Christology within a Oneness framework. It calls readers to see the apostolic witness with renewed clarity: the God who created all things through His Wisdom and Word has made Himself known fully and savingly in Jesus Christ.