Apostle on the Edge (2009 Cosby), book

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Apostle on the Edge: An Inductive Approach to Paul (2009) is a book by Michael R. Cosby.

Abstract

A textbook introducing the study of Paul and his letters.

<Author and teacher Michael R. Cosby provides a wonderful guide to Paul's letters, helping students relate them to their own cultural setting and figure out for themselves what they mean. Irreverent, entertaining, engaging, and fun, yet grounded in sound theology, Cosby's textbook, full of pictures, questions, and insights, is certain to be a most popular educational tool.>--Publisher description.

Editions

Published in Louisville, KY: Westminster John Knox, 2009.

Table of contents

• Introduction: Crossing the chasm of culture and time
• Piecing the fragments together
• Zealous for the law
• Messianic expectations turned upside down
• Greek and Roman religions of Paul's day
• The fearless Apostle of Acts
• Reading other people's mail: Philemon
• 1 Thessalonians: problems with prophecy
• 2 Thessalonians: get to work, you lazy moochers!
• Galatians: a furious Apostle strikes back
• 1 Corinthians: sex, booze, and ecstatic worship
• 2 Corinthians: apostolic basket case
• Philippians: thanks for the money
• Romans: theology on the edge of conflict
• Colossians: syncretism threatens the church *Ephesians: a sermon, not a letter
• Monsters in the closet: the problem of pseudonymity
• Pastoral Epistles: guarding Orthodoxy
• Your view of the Apostle Paul

External links

• [ Google Books]