Who created Christianity? : fresh approaches to the relationship between Paul and Jesus / Craig A Evans, Aaron W White, editors.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Evans, Craig A. (Craig Alan), 1952- editor.

White, Aaron W., editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Paul, the Apostle, Saint--Theology.

Paul.

Paul, the Apostle, Saint.

Bible. Epistles of Paul--Theology.

Bible.

Bible. Epistles of Paul.

Theology.

Christianity--Origin.

Christianity.

Physical Description:

xv, 472 pages ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Peabody, Massachusetts : Hendrickson Publishers, 2020.

Summary:

"This collection of essays proposes a complementary work to the work of David Wenham and his thesis that Paul was indeed, not the founder of Christianity or the creator of Christian dogma, as such, but instead the faithful disciple and conveyer of a prior Jesus tradition"--Publisher.

Contents:

Machine generated contents note: 1. Paul and Jesus: Issues of Continuity and Discontinuity in Their Discussion / Stanley E. Porter

I. Jesus, Paul, and Gospel Origins

2. How and Why Paul Invented "Christian Theology" / N. T. Wright

3. The Origins of Paul's Gospel / Graham H. Twelftree

4. When Paul Met Jesus: How an Idea Continues to Be Lost in History Past and Present / Stanley E. Porter

5. Paul and the Jesus Tradition: An Old Question and Some New Answers / Rainer Riesner

6. Continuity and Development in the Ministries of Jesus and of Paul / Christoph W. Stenschke

7. Paul's Significant Other in the "We" Passages / Joan E. Taylor

8. Whose Gospel Is It Anyway? The Glory of Christ in the Prophetic Ministry of Paul according to His "My Gospel" and "Our Gospel" Statements / Aaron W. White

II. Jesus, Paul, and Oral Tradition

9. David Wenham, "The Little Apocalypse," Paul

-and Silas / Bruce Chilton

10. The Parallels between 1 and 2 Thessalonians against the Background of Ancient Parallel Letters and Speeches / Armin D. Baum

III. Themes in Jesus and Pauline Studies

11. Metanoia: Jesus, Paul, and the Transformation of the Believing Mind / Mister McGrath

12. "You Would Not Believe If You Were Told": Eschatological Unbelief in Early Christian Apologetics / Peter Turnill

13. Paul on Food and Jesus on What Really Defiles: Is There a Connection? / Craig A. Evans

IV. Women according to Jesus and Paul

14. Gospel Women Remembered / Sarah Harris

15. Women in the Pauline Epistles: Lessons from the Jesus Tradition / Erin M. Heim

V. Paul and the Synoptics

16. Twelve Theses on Matthew and Paul: The Jewish Gospel and the Apostle to the Gentiles / Michael F. Bird

17. Paul and the Paternoster: Some Mainly Matthew Observations about a Pauline Prayer / Charles Nathan Ridlehoover

18. The Rediscovery of David Wenham's Rediscovery: Reflections on a Pre-Markan Eschatological Discourse Thirty-Six Years on / Craig Blomberg

19. Portraits of Jesus and Paul through the Lukan Lens / Steve Walton

VI. Jesus in the Paulines

20. "Every Sin That a Person Commits Is Outside the Body" (1 Corinthians 6:18b): Paul's Likely Dependence on the Jesus Tradition / John Nolland

21. Jesus Is Lord: The Rhetorical Appropriation of the Teaching of Jesus in 1 Corinthians 5 / Peter Davids

22. The Temple and Anti-Temple at Colossae / Greg Beale

23. Filling up What Is Lacking in Christ's Afflictions: Isaiah's Servant and Servants in Second Temple Judaism and Colossians 1:24 / Holly Beers.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781683072706

1683072707

OCLC:

1242934007