Paul (1971 @1969 Bornkamm), book (English ed.)

Paul (1971) is the English edition of Paulus (1969 Bornkamm), book. Translated from the German by D.M.G. Stalker.

Abstract

This is Bornkamm’s companion volume to his Jesus of Nazareth, which he wrote more than a dozen years before in 1956. Bornkamm is particularly concerned with demonstrating continuity between Jesus and Paul, thereby refuting the widespread idea that Paul was the perverter of the pure spirituality of the man of Galilee. Paul is a summary of Paul’s life and theology with an emphasis on the way each influenced the other. The book breaks down into two parts. The first part addresses Paul’s life and work and is biographical in nature. The second part expounds his theology. Bornkamm emphasizes throughout the text Paul’s grounding in Hellenistic Judaism and OT theology, as well as his continuity with Jesus. Bornkamm was a German Protestant theologian; not surprisingly he considered justification by faith the centerpiece of Pauline theology. In his reconstruction of early church history he favors Paul’s own epistles over Acts, which Bornkamm believed oftentimes was ignorant of what actually happened.

Editions

Published in London [England]: Hodder & Stoughton, 1971; and New York, NY: Harper & Row, 1971. Reissued in Minneapolis, MN: Fortress, 1995.