One God as one God and One Lord. The Lordship of Christ as a Hermeneutical Key to Paul's Christology in 1 Corinthians (with a special focus on 1 Cor. 8

This exegetical analysis of 8:4-6 contributes to the ongoing discussion on Paul's Christology and its role in the development of Early Christian thought. Paul's representation of Jesus Christ as the Lord is analyzed in relation to Hellenistic, Roman, and Jewish religious worldviews in which other figures were also called lords. Implying a correlation between status and function of a particular lord and therefore denoting objective characteristics, 'Lordship' allows the categorization of various