Who Created Christianity? : Fresh Approaches to the Relationship Between Paul and Jesus.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Evans, Craig.

Contributor:

White, Aaron.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Paul, the Apostle, Saint--Theology.

Paul.

Paul, the Apostle, Saint.

Bible. Epistles of Paul--Theology.

Bible.

Bible. Epistles of Paul.

Christianity--Origin.

Christianity.

Theology.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (430 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Carol Stream, IL : Tyndale House 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:

Foreword / David Wenham

Preface / Aaron W. White

Introduction. Framing the Discussion

Paul and Jesus : issues of continuity and discontinuity in their discussions / Stanley E. Porter

I. Jesus, Paul, and Gospel Origins

How and why Paul invented "Christian theology" / N. T. Wright

The origins of Paul's gospel / Graham H. Twelftree

When Paul met Jesus : how an idea continues to be lost in history past and present / Stanley E. Porter

Paul and Jesus tradition : an old question and some new answers / Rainer Riesner

Continuity and development in the ministries of Jesus and of Paul / Christoph W. Stenschke

Paul's significant other in the "we" passages / Joan E. Taylor

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

David Wenham, "The Little Apocalypse," Paul- and Silas / Bruce Chilton

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

Metanoia : Jesus, Paul, and the transformation of the believing mind / Alister McGrath

You would not believe if you were told : eschatological unbelief in early Christian apologetics / Peter Turnill

Paul on food and Jesus on what really defiles : is there a connection? / Craig A. Evans

IV. Women According to Jesus and Paul

Gospel women remembered / Sarah Harris

Women in the Pauline Epistles : lessons from the Jesus tradition / Erin M. Heim

V. Paul and the Synoptics

Twelve theses on Matthew and Paul : the Jewish gospel and the apostle to the Gentiles / Michael F. Bird

Paul and the paternoster : some mainly Matthew observations about Pauline prayer / Charles Nathan Ridlehoover

The rediscovery of David Wenham's rediscovery : reflections on a pre-Markan eschatological discourse thirty-six years on / Craig Blomberg

Portraits of Jesus and Paul through the Lukan lens / Steve Walton

VI. Jesus in the Paulines

Every sin that a person commits is outside the body : (1 Corinthians 6: 18b) : Paul's likely dependence on the Jesus tradition / John Nolland

Jesus is Lord : the rhetorical appropriation of the teaching of Jesus in 1 Corinthians 5 / Peter Davids

The Temple and the anti-Temple at Colossae / Greg Beale

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:

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ISBN:

1-68307-381-9

OCLC:

1273982364