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Craig A. Evans - Aaron W. White (eds.), Who Created Christianity?: Fresh Approaches to the Relationship between Paul and Jesus (Peabody, MA: Hendrickson, 2020).

Abstract

"This collection of essays proposes a complementary work to the work of David Wenham and his thesis that Paul was indeed, not the founder of Christianity or the creator of Christian dogma, as such, but instead the faithful disciple and conveyer of a prior Jesus tradition ... Who Created Christianity? is a collection of essays by top international Christian scholars who desire to reinforce the relationship that Paul had with Jesus and Christianity ... There is a general sense today among Christians in certain circles that Paul’s teachings to the early Christian church are thought to be "rogue," even clashing at times with Jesus’ words. Yet these essays set out to prove that the tradition that Paul passes on is one received from Jesus, not separate from it ... The essays in this volume come from a diverse and international group of scholars. They offer up-to-date studies of the teachings of Paul and how the specific teachings directly relate to the earlier teachings of Jesus. This volume explores with even greater focus than ever before the tradition from which Paul emerges and the specific teachings that are part of this tradition. This collection of essays proposes a complementary work to the work of David Wenham and his thesis that Paul was indeed not the founder of Christianity or the creator of Christian dogma; instead he was a faithful disciple and a conveyer of a prior Christian tradition ... Key points and features: Includes essays by well-known Christian scholars such as Craig Blomberg, Alister McGrath, N. T. Wright, Michael Bird, Greg Beale, and more."--Publisher description.

Contents

Foreword / David Wenham -- Preface / Aaron W. White -- Introduction. Framing the Discussion -- Paul and Jesus : issues of continuity and discontinuity in their discussions / Stanley E. Porter -- I. Jesus, Paul, and Gospel Origins -- How and why Paul invented "Christian theology" / N. T. Wright -- The origins of Paul's gospel / Graham H. Twelftree -- When Paul met Jesus : how an idea continues to be lost in history past and present / Stanley E. Porter -- Paul and Jesus tradition : an old question and some new answers / Rainer Riesner -- Continuity and development in the ministries of Jesus and of Paul / Christoph W. Stenschke -- Paul's significant other in the "we" passages / Joan E. Taylor -- Whose gospel is it anyway? : the glory of Christ in the prophetic ministry of Paul according to his "my Gospel" and "our Gospel" statements / Aaron W. White -- II. Jesus, Paul, and Oral Tradition -- David Wenham, "The Little Apocalypse," Paul- and Silas / Bruce Chilton -- The parallels between 1 and 2 Thessalonians against the background of ancient parallel letters and speeches / Armin D. Baum -- III. Themes in Jesus and Pauline Studies -- Metanoia : Jesus, Paul, and the transformation of the believing mind / Alister McGrath -- You would not believe if you were told : eschatological unbelief in early Christian apologetics / Peter Turnill -- Paul on food and Jesus on what really defiles : is there a connection? / Craig A. Evans IV. Women According to Jesus and Paul -- Gospel women remembered / Sarah Harris -- Women in the Pauline Epistles : lessons from the Jesus tradition / Erin M. Heim -- V. Paul and the Synoptics -- Twelve theses on Matthew and Paul : the Jewish gospel and the apostle to the Gentiles / Michael F. Bird -- Paul and the paternoster : some mainly Matthew observations about Pauline prayer / Charles Nathan Ridlehoover -- The rediscovery of David Wenham's rediscovery : reflections on a pre-Markan eschatological discourse thirty-six years on / Craig Blomberg -- Portraits of Jesus and Paul through the Lukan lens / Steve Walton -- VI. Jesus in the Paulines -- Every sin that a person commits is outside the body : (1 Corinthians 6: 18b) : Paul's likely dependence on the Jesus tradition / John Nolland -- Jesus is Lord : the rhetorical appropriation of the teaching of Jesus in 1 Corinthians 5 / Peter Davids -- The Temple and the anti-Temple at Colossae / Greg Beale -- Filling up what is lacking in Christ's afflictions : Isaiah's Servant and servants in Second Temple Judaism and Colossians 1:24 / Holly Beers.

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