What does this research mean for the field?

To fully integrate the Jewishness of Jesus into Christian theology, Christians must adopt a christotelic hermeneutic—centered on Jesus as a person who assumed Israel's covenantal flesh, as preserved in Eastern Orthodox liturgy—rather than a traditional christocentric reading. Novelty: ClaimNovelty.METHODOLOGICAL. Consensus alignment: ConsensusAlignment.CHALLENGES_CONSENSUS.

What question did this study set out to answer?

To examine how a christotelic hermeneutic grounded in Eastern Orthodox liturgy recovers the irrevocable Jewishness of Jesus and Israel's covenantal life.

September 3, 2026Studies in Christian-Jewish RelationsOpen Access

The Whole Story Matters: An Orthodox Christian Perspective on Israel’s Covenantal Life and the Jewish Jesus

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To examine how a christotelic hermeneutic grounded in Eastern Orthodox liturgy recovers the irrevocable Jewishness of Jesus and Israel's covenantal life.
Analyzed patristic theological works from Irenaeus of Lyons, Cyril of Alexandria, Basil of Caesarea, Tyconius, Augustine, and Maximus the Confessor.
Evaluated Byzantine liturgical practices and hymnody, including the songs of Moses, genealogies, and the feast of Christ's circumcision, alongside modern hermeneutical frameworks.
Patristic writers repeatedly approximated a christotelic framework that locates Israel's fulfillment in a person rather than an abstract event, but frequently failed to sustain this view systematically in formal theology.
Byzantine liturgical practice preserves and performs the enduring covenantal Jewishness of Christ that theological discourse historically marginalized.

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Theological analysis demonstrates an enduring Jewish covenantal identity in Jesus through Byzantine worship, highlighting a christotelic reading of scripture.

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Geoffrey Ready (2026) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/6a9934b4636c6408cfa7c783 https://doi.org/10.6017/scjr.v21i1.21970

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Theological analysis demonstrates an enduring Jewish covenantal identity in Jesus through Byzantine worship, highlighting a christotelic reading of scripture.

The Whole Story Matters: An Orthodox Christian Perspective on Israel’s Covenantal Life and the Jewish Jesus

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The Whole Story Matters: An Orthodox Christian Perspective on Israel’s Covenantal Life and the Jewish Jesus

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