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Jesus according to Paul

Part of Understanding Jesus Today

Author: Victor Paul Furnish

Date Published: December 1993
availability: Available
format: Paperback
isbn: 9780521458245

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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.
- Author is senior NT scholar with internationally renowned reputation
- The first book to cover these issues at an introductory level
- Covers the questions students most want to consider with regard to Paul and Jesus
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Product details
- Date Published: December 1993
- format: Paperback
- isbn: 9780521458245
- length: 144 pages
- dimensions: 180 x 124 x 11 mm
- weight: 0.124kg
- availability: Available
Table of Contents
1. From Jesus to Paul
2. Paul's knowledge about Jesus
3. Sayings of Jesus in Paul's Letters
4. Jesus in Paul's Gospel
5. Jesus according to the 'Pauline School'
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Victor Paul Furnish