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This work provides a survey of the history of the earliest
Christian church in the period up to the fall of Jerusalem. It
concentrates on: the figure of Paul; judicious and critical use of
information in the Book of Acts; Judaizing versions of
Christianity; and the Johannine tradition. The approach steers a
middle way between an over-simplified account which fails to warn
students where scholarly opinion is divided, and an in-depth
academic study which attempts to document and discuss every
hypothesis. Wedderburn focuses on aspects of central importance:
the changing shape of church life and developing Christianity in
relation to the Roman Empire and to Judaism. This book seeks to
draw together and make more readily accessible many new insights
gained from an enormous range of recent scholarly studies in German
and English, and places them in the context of a more general
account.
Important essays on Gnosis and Gnosticism. Contributors include
Rudolph, Pagels, Grant, and Barrett.
Description: Although it might seem natural that Jesus' beliefs
about God should shape Christian theology, this has often not been
the case. Jesus' beliefs about God, including such aspects as
omnipotence and personality, were largely shaped by contemporary
Judaism. His view of God's character--exercising impartiality and
mercy in this world, but at times retribution in the next--was
often distinctive, though not always. The questions about the
divine nature that had exercised earlier philosophers and
theologians and would continue to puzzle later ones were not his
concern, and later discoveries and theories about the nature of the
cosmos, still often so mysterious to us, were naturally not part of
his thought-world. Similarly, the role that later theologians found
for him within the divine Trinity was also alien to him. On the
other hand, alternative attempts to argue about the existence and
the nature of God on the basis of cosmology or human "religious
experience" have led to no conclusive results. The man Jesus
himself, however, offered moral teaching and a way of life that he
believed, rightly or wrongly, reflected the nature and will of his
God, and this is his lasting contribution, regardless of whatever
divine reality does or does not lie behind it.
The relationship between the messages of Jesus and Paul, once
dubbed by one scholar 'the second founder of Christianity', must
count as one of the most central issues in the study of the New
Testament. The essays collected in this volume first survey the
history of the study of this problem, and look at some of the main
evidence for supposing that the connection between Jesus and Paul
was slight, notably the paucity of Paul's references to Jesus'
teachings and his seeming disinterest in the earthly Jesus. Other
essays take up the question of the continuity between the teaching
and the manner of life of the two men, and raise the question how
this continuity may have been mediated from one to the other. A
final essay raises the question how far Paul's statements about
Christ were related to the earthly life of Jesus. This volume
brings together a number of substantial contributions to this
question, by Professor V.P. Furnish of Dallas, by two scholars from
the German Democratic Republic, Professor N. Walter and Dr C.
Wolff, and by the editor; some are published for the first time,
some are here made available in English for the first time.
This work provides a survey of the history of the earliest
Christian church in the period up to the fall of Jerusalem. It
concentrates on: the figure of Paul; judicious and critical use of
information in the Book of Acts; Judaizing versions of
Christianity; and the Johannine tradition. The approach steers a
middle way between an over-simplified account which fails to warn
students where scholarly opinion is divided, and an in-depth
academic study which attempts to document and discuss every
hypothesis. Wedderburn focuses on aspects of central importance:
the changing shape of church life and developing Christianity in
relation to the Roman Empire and to Judaism. This book seeks to
draw together and make more readily accessible many new insights
gained from an enormous range of recent scholarly studies in German
and English, and places them in the context of a more general
account.
A comprehensive and up-to-date introduction to Romans, and a
systematic survey of recent studies in the field.
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