Heirs of Paul: Their Legacy in the New Testament and the Church Today

Name: Heirs of Paul: Their Legacy in the New Testament and the Church Today
Brand: Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Co.
SKU: 4256X
Price: 14.85 USD
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Author: J. Christiaan Beker
ISBN: 9780802842565

By: J. Christiaan Beker

Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Co. / 1996 / Paperback

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How does Paul fare in the church after his death---both in the past and the present? Beker provides the all-important answer, releasing the apostle from his "historical straightjacket" and calling us to release the power of the Pauline gospel to the world. Stimulating and timely. 146 pages, softcover from Eerdmans.

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Title: Heirs of Paul: Their Legacy in the New Testament and the Church Today
By: J. Christiaan Beker
Format: Paperback
Number of Pages: 146
Vendor: Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Co.
Publication Date: 1996

Dimensions: 9 X 6 X .38 (inches)
Weight: 8 ounces
ISBN: 0802842569
ISBN-13: 9780802842565
Stock No: WW4256X

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In 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.