Paul and the Gospels: Christologies, Conflicts and Convergences

Michael F. Bird, Joel Willitts

A&C Black, Jul 7, 2011 - Religion - 276 pages

"Addresses the issue of how the Christianity depicted in and represented by the individual Gospels relates to the vision of Christianity represented by Paul and the Pauline writings. This raises such questions as to what extent did Paul influence the canonical and non-canonical Gospels? In what way are the Gospels reactions to Paul and his legacy? The contributors compare the Gospels and Paul on topics such as Old Testament Law, Gentile mission, Christology and early church leadership structures"--From publisher description.

Contents

• INTRODUCTION: 1
• 1 MARK PAUL AND THE QUESTION OF INFLUENCES: 10
• INTERPRETER OF PETER AND DISCIPLE OF PAUL: 30
• A DESCRIPTIVE APPROACH FROM A POSTNEW PERSPECTIVE INTERPRETATIVE FRAMEWORK: 62
• TWO STRANDS OF THE EARLY JESUSMOVEMENT WITH LITTLE SIGN OF CONNECTION: 86
• 5 LUKE AND PAUL ON REPENTANCE: 115
• COMPANION OR DISCIPLE OF PAUL?: 146
• JOHANNINE AND PAULINE PERSPECTIVES ON THE CHRIST EVENT: 169
• TWO WITNESSES ONE GOSPEL: 197
• 9 THE GOSPEL OF THOMASS REJECTION OF PAULS THEOLOGICAL IDEAS: 220
• 10 DEATH AND THE HUMAN PREDICAMENT SALVATION AS TRANSFORMATION AND BODILY PRACTICES IN 1 CORINTHIANS AND ...: 242
• Index of Ancient Sources: 267
• Index of Modern Authors: 275

About the author

Dr. Michael Bird (Ph.D, University of Queensland, Australia) teaches New Testament and Greek at Highland Theological College in Scotland, UK. He has published in several different academic journals including "Journal for the Study of the Historical Jesus," "Currents in Biblical Research, Bulletin for Biblical Research," "Tyndale Bulletin," " Westminster Theological Journal," "Trinity Journal," and "Evangelical Quarterly." Joel Willitts is Associate Professor of Biblical and Theological Studies at North Park University, Chicago, USA

Bibliographic information

• Title: Paul and the Gospels: Christologies, Conflicts and Convergences; T & T Clark biblical studies; T & T Clark library of biblical studies; Volume 411 of The Library of New Testament Studies
• Editors: Michael F. Bird, Joel Willitts
• Publisher: A&C Black, 2011
• ISBN: 0567617424, 9780567617422
• Length: 276 pages
• Subjects: Religion / Biblical Studies / New Testament / General; Religion / Biblical Studies / New Testament / Paul's Letters