Who Created Christianity? Fresh Approaches to the Relationship between Paul and Jesus

by Craig A. Evans; Aaron W. White

Publisher:

Hendrickson

, 2020

Overview

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 Features

• Explores the relationship that Paul had with Jesus and Christianity
• Examines the tradition from which Paul emerged and the specific teachings that are part of this tradition
• Contains contributions from a diverse and international group of scholars

Contents

• Bruce Chilton: Silas, Apocalyptic, and the Resurrection
• Armin Baum: Parallel Letters in the Corpus Paulinum: Insights from Ancient Analogies and Modern Memory Research
• Stanley Porter: When Paul Met Jesus: An Idea Worth Revisiting
• Craig Blomberg: The Rediscovery of Wenham’s Eschatological Parables
• Ian Paul: Paul’s Continuing Emancipation of Women in the Tradition of Jesus
• Craig Evans: Paul on Food and Jesus on What Really Defiles
• Aaron W. White: Whose Gospel: Reexamining Paul’s ‘My Gospel’ and ‘Our Gospel’ Statements
• Sarah Harris: Women Disciples in Jesus and Paul from Luke’s Gospel
• Michael Bird: The Gospel of Matthew and Guardian Angels
• Rainer Riesner: Paul and the Jesus Tradition: Four Recent Views
• Steve Walton: Portraits of Jesus and Paul through the Lukan Lens
• Graham Twelftree: The Origins of Paul’s Gospel
• Joan Taylor: Paul’s Significant Other: Disciples Together in the ‘We’ Passages
• Erin Heim: Women in the Pauline Epistles: Lessons from the Jess Tradition
• Alister McGrath: Jesus and Paul on the Discipleship of the Mind
• Holly Beers: Filling Up What is Lacking in Christ’s Afflictions: Isaiah’s Servant and Servants in Second Temple Judaism and Colossians 1:24
• D. A. Carson: Justifying Jesus: The Theme of Justification as Received by Paul from Jesus
• Peter Davids: Paul as a Follower of Jesus in 1 Corinthians
• John Nolland: “Every Sin That a Person Commits is Outside the Body” (1 Cor. 6:18): Paul’s likely dependence on the Jesus tradition
• Christoph Stenschke: Continuities and Discontinuities between the Ministry of Jesus and the Mission of Paul
• Peter Turnill: You Would Not Believe If You Were Told: Jesus, Paul, and Jewish Eschatological Unbelief
• Nathan Ridlehoover: The Lord’s Prayer in Paul
• N. T. Wright: Understanding Jesus’ Teaching for the Reader of Paul
• Greg Beale: Temple and Anti-Temple in Colossae

Product Details

• Title: Who Created Christianity?: Fresh Approaches to the Relationship between Paul and Jesus
• Authors: Craig A. Evans, Aaron W. White
• Edition: First ebook Edition
• Publisher: Hendrickson
• Print Publication Date: 2020
• Logos Release Date: 2021
• Pages: 472
• Era: era:contemporary
• Language: English
• Resources: 1
• Format: Digital › Logos Research Edition
• Subjects: Jesus Christ › Early church, ca. 30-600; Paul, the Apostle, Saint; Bible. N.T. Epistles of Paul › Theology
• ISBNs: 9781683073819, 1683073819
• Resource ID: LLS:WHCRTDCHRSPLJSS
• Resource Type: Monograph
• Metadata Last Updated: 2022-09-30T03:45:09Z

About the Editors

Craig A. Evans (PhD, Claremont; DHabil, Budapest) is the John Bisagno Distinguished Professor of Christian Origins at Houston Baptist University. He is the author of several books on Jesus, the Gospels, the Dead Sea Scrolls, and archaeology. Evans has given lectures at Cambridge, Durham, Oxford, and Yale as well as the Field Museum in Chicago and the Canadian Museum of Civilization in Ottawa. He has appeared in many television documentaries and news programs, including Dateline NBC and CBS Sunday Morning.

Aaron W. White, PhD (Bristol University 2017), a Presbyterian pastor, is author of The Prophets Agree: The Function of the Twelve Prophets in Acts (Brill, BINS, 2020), and co-editor of The Earliest Perceptions of Jesus in Context (Bloomsbury/T&T Clark, 2017) with David Wenham and Craig Evans, and Who Created Christianity? Fresh Approaches to the Relationship Between Jesus and Paul (Hendrickson, forthcoming, 2020) with Craig Evans. Additionally, he is contracted to write the Judges volume in the Septuagint Commentary Series (Brill). White is the chair of the Luke-Acts steering committee and member of the Septuagint studies steering committee, both with the Evangelical Theological Society. He is an active member of the Tyndale Fellowship.

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