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For the past century, scholars have debated when and how a divine
Christology emerged. This book considers the earliest evidence we
have, the letters of Paul. David Capes, a veteran teacher and
highly regarded scholar, examines Paul's letters to show how the
apostle constructed his unique portrait of Jesus as divine through
a rereading of Israel's Scriptures. This new addition to the Acadia
Studies in Bible and Theology series is ideal for use in courses on
Paul, Christology, biblical theology, and intertextuality.
Readers' Choice Awards Honorable Mention One of Nijay Gupta's Best
Academic New Testament Books Who is your Jesus? Matthew's teacher?
John's Word made flesh? Hebrews' great high priest? What if it
turned out that your Jesus is a composite of your favorite
selections from the New Testament buffet, garnished with some
Hollywood and Americana? Rediscovering Jesus takes us on a gallery
tour of biblical portraits of Jesus, from Matthew through
Revelation. Our expert guides point out the background and
highlights of each New Testament image of Jesus. Then we hit the
streets to visit other houses of worship and their scriptures,
examining the Jesus of the Book of Mormon and the Qur'an. Popping
into a bookstore, we browse the latest on the Gnostic and the
historical Jesus. Then we're off on a walking tour of Jesus in
America, followed by a film festival of Jesus movies. All along the
way our tour guides describe and interpret, but also raise
questions: How is this Jesus different from other portraits? If
this were our only portrait of Jesus, what would our faith be like?
Rediscovering Jesus is an enjoyable, informative and challenging
look at how we encounter Jesus in Scripture and our culture. With
ample sidebars exploring contexts and the "so what?" questions, it
takes us beyond other surveys by probing how our understanding of
Jesus can make a difference for faith and life. From the authors of
Rediscovering Paul, this is a textbook introduction to Jesus that
guides us in our pilgrimage toward seeing Jesus truly.
Description: This delightfully multifaceted volume, comprised of
thoughtful essays by an esteemed array of cultural critics, probes
the intersection of Christian faith and culture to honor the memory
of A. J. ""Chip"" Conyers, a remarkably ecumenical Christian
scholar and cultural ""warrior"" whose premature death in 2004 cut
short a remarkable career in teaching and writing. As those who
knew him can attest, Conyers lived his life at the intersection of
Christian theology and cultural concern with a singular blend of
astuteness, gracefulness, and Christian conviction. This
festschrift, as esteemed theologian and Conyers's mentor Jurgen
Moltmann indicates in the foreword, is intended to mirror Conyers's
own commitment to incisive cultural criticism and theological
faithfulness in the mold of the ""great tradition."" This is no
small achievement even for so venerable a cast of scholars as the
contributors to this volume, as Conyers crossed interdisciplinary
boundaries--in a day of escalating hyper-specialization--with the
greatest of ease. He was comfortable discussing contemporary church
life or the christological controversy of the patristic era,
Heideggerian hermeneutics or human dignity and the imago Dei, faith
and the Enlightenment or the fatherhood of God, Catholic
""substance"" or Protestant reform. Yet Conyers always did this
through the lens of historic Christian orthodoxy. Though he was a
most incisive student of culture, in a most refreshing way he
steered clear of being co-opted by the currents of culture. Neither
retreating into pious devotionalism nor opting for the
theologically unreflective activism that has become so chic in our
post-consensus climate, he embodied a theological perspective that
blends responsible cultural engagement with eschatological hope.
The reader is sure to encounter the same blend in this festschrift,
and to come away both challenged and edified toward fulfilling the
message and hope of Conyers' life and work: to faithfully thrive in
Babylon. Endorsements: ""Chip Conyers was a remarkable Christian
scholar, one who combined an intense desire for God with an
unbounded love of learning. Like a meteor against the night, he
illuminated the world around him and showed the church a more
faithful way to follow Christ. The essays presented here give a
sense of Conyers' breadth and wisdom and his courage to engage the
culture for Christ's sake. This is a worthy tribute to one of the
most generous, insightful, and humane theologians I have known.""""
--Timothy George Dean, Beeson Divinity School General Editor of the
Reformation Commentary on Scripture About the Contributor(s): David
B. Capes is Dean of the Graduate School and Director of the School
of Theology at Houston Baptist University. He has authored a number
of books including Old Testament Yahweh Texts in Paul's Christology
(1992) and Rediscovering Paul (2007). J. Daryl Charles is Director
and Senior Fellow of the Bryan Institute for Critical Thought &
Practice at Bryan College. Among the number of books he has
authored are Retrieving the Natural Law: A Return to Moral First
Things (2008) and The Unformed Conscience of Evangelicalism:
Recovering the Church's Moral Vision (2002).
The earliest Christian communities engaged in bold and imaginative
rereadings of their Scripturesanone more astounding and potentially
inflammatory than of the passages that focus upon the name and
nature of Israel's God. In this volume, David B. Capes tracks the
Apostle Paul's use of Old Testament texts that directly invoke
God's name, Yahweh, for what they can disclose about the earliest
Christian beliefs and practices. Since Paul writes to his churches
in Greek and quotes the Old Testament extensively from the
Septuagint, Capes focuses upon Old Testament quotations and
allusions in which kyrios translates the divine name. He discovers
that Paul applies a majority of his quotations of and allusions to
Yahweh texts to the Lord Jesus Christ, thus offering to him
designations originally reserved for Israel's God. Given the high
regard that Judaism placed upon both Scripture and the divine name
in the first century, the application of Yahweh texts to Jesus
bears significant christological weight. These texts reveal that
Paul considered Jesus to be more than a man or a divine agentaPaul
believed that Christ was in some sense Yahweh Himself.Capes thus
unveils Paul's strategy for the reading of Scripture, which
provides a basis for properly interpreting early Christianity's
veneration of Jesus, including prayers and hymns to Christ, the
authoritative status attributed to Jesus' words, and the notions of
Christ's pre-existence, role in creation, and authority as coming
eschatological Savior and Judge. How Paul reread his Bible goes
hand-in-glove with the differences that developed between
Christianity and Judaism.
Israel's God and Rebecca's Children is a collection of essays
written as a tribute to the lasting scholarship and friendship of
Larry Hurtado (University of Edinburgh) and Alan Segal (Barnard
College), two scholars who have contributed significantly to the
contemporary understanding of Second Temple and Rabbinic Judaism
and early Christianity. Their colleagues and friends examine a wide
range of topics that have been the focus of Hurtado and Segal's
research, including Christology, community, Jewish-Christian
relations, soteriology and the development of early Christianity.
Together these essays reconceptualize Christology and community in
Judaism and Christianity and provide valuable insights into the
issues of community and identity.
For some of us, the apostle Paul is intimidating, like a distant
and difficult uncle. Maybe not someone you'd like to hang out with
at a coffee shop on a rainy day. He'd make a scene, evangelize the
barista, and arouse looks across the room. For a mid-morning latte,
we'd prefer Jesus over Paul. But Paul is actually the guy who-from
Ephesus to Athens-was the talk of the marketplace, the raconteur of
the Parthenon. He knew everyone, founded emerging churches, loved
the difficult people, and held his own against the intellectuals of
his day. If you're willing to give Paul a try, Rediscovering Paul
is your reliable guide. This is a book that reacquaints us with
Paul, as if for the first time. Drawing on the best of contemporary
scholarship, and with language shaped by teaching and conversing
with today's students, Rediscovering Paul is a textbook that has
passed the test. Now in a reworked edition, it's better than ever.
There are fresh discussions of Paul's letter writing and how those
letters were received in the churches, new considerations of
pseudonymity and the authenticity of Paul's letters, and updated
coverage of recent developments in interpreting Paul. from Paul's
conversion and call to his ongoing impact on church and culture,
this second edition of Rediscovering Paul comes enthusiastically
recommended.
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