(+) From Jewish Prophet to Gentile God (1991 Casey), book

From Jewish Prophet to Gentile God: The Origins and Development of New Testament Christology (1991) is a book by Maurice Casey.

Abstract

"n From Jewish Prophet to Gentile God, Maurice Casey suggests a new theory as to why New Testament Christology developed as it did. In making his argument, Casey pays particular attention to the culture of Jesus and the earliest Christians ... Based on the 1985 Cardbury Lectures delivered at the University of Birmingham, England, this book describes and explains the origins and development of New Testament Christology. Using both original sources and established and recent scholarship, Casey presents a convincing argument to support his Christological framework. He traces the evolution through the Pauline epistles and the Gospels of the historical figure of Jesus, the Aramaic-speaking Jew, to his identification as Jesus Christ, the Messiah and Son of God. The declaration of his deity in John's Gospel is related to the Gentile self-identification of the Johannine community. This is the first book in the field of Christian origins to make serious analytical use of the concept of identity. It includes new discussion and explanation of early Christian belief in the Resurrection, the Virgin birth and other elements of Christian dogma. Lucid and cogently organised. This book's conclusions are both logical and startling. Casey's work represents a major advance in the study of Christology."--Publisher description.

Editions

Published in Cambridge [England]: Clarke; and Louisville, KY: Westminster Knox, 1991.

Contents

Introduction -- Modes of analysis. Modern Judaism ; Identity ; Ethnicity ; Religion, ethnicity and social function ; Orthodoxy ; Conclusions -- God incarnate - Jesus in the Johannine community. Deity and incarnation ; Historicity ; Gentile self-identification ; Cast out of the synagogue ; Assimilating Jews ; The Johannine community -- Messiah, Son of God and Son of Man. Introduction ; Messiah ; Son of God ; Son of Man ; Conclusions -- Jesus of Nazareth. Introduction ; The Kingdom of God ; The mission to the lost sheep ; Conflict with the Orthodox ; Death and vindication ; Prophet and teacher ; The Jesus movement ; The Jewish identity of the Jesus movement ; Jesus as the embodiment of Jewish identity -- Messianic and intermediary figures in second temple Judaism. Introduction ; Static parallels ; Dynamic parallels ; Enoch and the chosen ; Wisdom and the wise ; The Maccabean martyrs ; On the fringe ; Analysis ; Conclusions -- From Jesus to Paul. Three stages of development ; The vindication of Jesus ; The early chapters of Acts ; The epistle of Jacob ; The Samaritan mission ; Pre-Pauline formulae ; Two pre-Pauline "hymns" -- The Christology of St Paul. Identity and mission ; The figure of Jesus ; Christ, the believer and the community ; Christology, experience and identity ; The titles and nature of Jesus ; Christology and monotheism in changing communities -- From Paul to John. The revelation of St. John the divine ; The epistle to the Hebrews ; The first epistle of Peter ; Matthew, Mark and Luke ; Deity, incarnation and the Johannine community -- History, culture and truth. Introduction ; A definition of faith ; Chalcedon, truth and tradition ; Deity, reality and perception ; Tradition, scholarship and truth ; Monotheism, Judaism and gentile perception ; Scripture, culture and truth.