The people's Jesus
Subtitle: trajectories in early Christianity
By: Robin Scroggs ; edited by Marshall D. Johnson ; with a foreword by Alexandra Brown
Contributors: Johnson, Marshall D.
Publisher: Fortress Press
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Minneapolis
Language: eng
Number of pages: 241
ISBN-13: 9780800697914
Subjects: History of doctrines; Bible; Social scientific criticism; Theology
Description: "Seeking the patterns of thought that shaped early beliefs about Jesus as the Christ, the late Robin Scroggs explores the social settings that sparked the primary christological themes and traces their trajectories through the literature that made up the New Testament" -- Publisher's description.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: The cosmocrator trajectory --; title: The Son of Man trajectory: early stages --; title: The Christos trajectory --; title: The fate of Christos in the Hellenistic church --; title: The three trajectories: what's at stake for believers --; title: The Synoptic Gospels and the three trajectories --; title: Paul and the cosmocrator trajectory --; title: The cosmocrator trajectory in Colossians and Ephesians --; title: Hebrews and the cosmocrator trajectory --; title: Theology and politics: Acts and Revelation --; title: The Gospel and First Epistle of John and the three trajectories.