Heirs of Paul: Paul's Legacy in the New Testament and in the Church TodayIn this book, the author discusses the reception of Paul in the modern day church, and argues that Paul and his gospel are the least understood parts of the New Testament in the church today. Beker examines the deutero-Pauline literature to reveal how the earliest churches received Paul's message. Refreshingly, Beker doesn't assume that the deutero-Pauline letters are a corruption of Paul's message. Rather, Beker's reconstruction reveals the ways Paul's gospel was adapted to the particular situations of the deutero-Pauline texts, and this becomes a model for the church today in receiving Paul afresh. |
Contents
THE PROBLEM OF PAULS LEGACY | 9 |
Procedure | 11 |
A Word on Method | 12 |
BASIC ISSUES IN THE TRANSMISSION OF TRADITION | 19 |
The Problem Inherent in the Transmission of Pauls Gospel | 27 |
The Historical Paul and the Canonical Paul | 31 |
THE HISTORICAL PAUL AND HIS NEW TESTAMENT INTERPRETERS A COMPARATIVE APPROACH | 35 |
Pauls Legacy in the Pastoral Epistles | 36 |
The Adaptation of Pauls Tradition | 79 |
Similarities of Adaptation | 93 |
The Necessity and Shortcomings of the Comparative Approach | 94 |
PAULS IMPACT ON THE POSTPAULINE PERIOD AND ON THE CHURCH TODAY | 99 |
Pauls Legacy in the New Testament Church | 104 |
Pauls Legacy for the Church Today | 115 |
NOTES | 129 |
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Pauls Legacy in the Book of Acts | 48 |
Pauls Legacy in Colossians and Ephesians | 64 |
Pauls Legacy in 2 Thessalonians | 72 |
THE HISTORICAL PAUL AND HIS NEW TESTAMENT INTERPRETERS A TRADITIONHISTORICAL APPROACH | 77 |
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