JESUS ACCORDING TO PAUL by Victor Paul Furnish, Howard Clark Kee ( 9780521458245 )

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Title:

JESUS ACCORDING TO PAUL

By:

Victor Paul Furnish, Howard Clark Kee

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0521458242

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9780521458245

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CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS

Pub. date:

9 December, 1993

Series:

Understanding Jesus Today

Pages:

144

Description:

An authoritative and intelligible treatment of the manner in which the apostle Paul interpreted Jesus's significance.

Synopsis:

Paul's letters are the earliest surviving Christian writings and therefore the earliest documentary evidence for what Jesus's followers knew and said about him. The present volume deals with questions frequently asked about Paul. Did he know Jesus personally? If not, then how much did Paul know about Jesus, and how did this information come to him? Where in his letters does Paul make use of Jesus's teachings, how does he employ them, and what kind of authority does he accord them? Above all, why does Paul place so much emphasis on Jesus' death and resurrection? How is he able to proclaim these as saving events? Finally, a closing chapter considers how several writings in the Pauline tradition variously continued and altered the apostle's own interpretation of Jesus. Because these Pauline understandings of Jesus have remained so influential across twenty centuries, the more fully they are appreciated the more one is helped in understanding Jesus today.

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