Christ's first theologian
Subtitle: the shape of Paul's thought
By: Leander E. Keck
Publisher: Baylor University Press
Published: 2015
Place of publication: Waco, Texas
Language: eng
Number of pages: 360
ISBN-13: 9781481303002; 9781481303026
Subjects: Theologie; Bible; Bibel; Theology
Description: For half a century Leander Keck thought, taught, and wrote about the New Testament. He first served as a Professor of New Testament at Vanderbilt Divinity School and Emory University's Candler School of Theology before becoming Dean and Professor of Biblical Theology at Yale Divinity School. Keck's lifelong work on Jesus and Paul was a catalyst for the emerging discussions of New Testament Christology and Pauline theology in the Society of Biblical Literature and the Studiorum Novi Testamenti Societas. Keck wrote a staggering number of now industry-standard articles on the New Testament. Here, they are all collected for the first time. In Christ's First Theologian and Why Christ Matters, readers will discover how Keck gave new answers to old questions even as he carefully reframed old answers into new questions. Keck's work is a treasure trove of historical, exegetical, and theological interpretation. -- from dust jacket.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 325-342) and index.
Table of contents: title: Images of Paul in the New Testament; title: Paul the Jew; title: The quest for Paul's Pharisaism; title: The Jewish Paul among the Gentiles; title: The problem of Paul's continuing Jewishness; title: Paul and apocalyptic theology; title: Paul as thinker; title: The logic of Paul's soteriology; title: Paul's understanding of freedom; title: The accountable self; title: God, the other, who acts otherwise; title: Justification of the ungodly and ethics; title: What makes Romans tick?; title: Good news for us Gentiles; title: Pathos in Romans?; title: The post-Pauline interpretation of Jesus' death in Romans 5:6-7; title: The absent good (Romans 7:18a); title: What to do with Paul?; title: Is Matthew Arnold also among the prophets?; title: What if Paul is right?; title: Faith seeking canonical understanding.