Who Created Christianity? (Dec)

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 points and features:? Includes essays by well-known Christian scholars such as Craig Blomberg, Alister McGrath, N. T. Wright, Michael Bird, Greg Beale, and more. CONTRIBUTORS:1. Bruce Chilton: Silas, Apocalyptic, and the Resurrection2. Armin Baum: Parallel Letters in the Corpus Paulinum: Insights from Ancient Analogies and Modern Memory Research3. Stanley Porter: When Paul Met Jesus: An Idea Worth Revisiting4. Craig Blomberg: The Rediscovery of Wenham?s Eschatological Parables5. Ian Paul: Paul?s Continuing Emancipation of Women in the Tradition of Jesus6. Craig Evans: Paul on Food and Jesus on What Really Defiles7. Aaron W. White: Whose Gospel: Reexamining Paul?s ?My Gospel? and ?Our Gospel? Statements8. Sarah Harris: Women Disciples in Jesus and Paul from Luke?s Gospel9. Michael Bird: The Gospel of Matthew and Guardian Angels 10. Rainer Riesner: Paul and the Jesus Tradition: Four Recent Views11. Steve Walton: Portraits of Jesus and Paul through the Lukan Lens12. Graham Twelftree: The Origins of Paul?s Gospel13. Joan Taylor: Paul?s Significant Other: Disciples Together in the ?We? Passages14. Erin Heim: Women in the Pauline Epistles: Lessons from the Jesus Tradition15. Alister McGrath: Jesus and Paul on the Discipleship of the Mind16. Holly Beers: Filling Up What is Lacking in Christ?s Afflictions: Isaiah?s Servant and Servants in Second Temple Judaism and Colossians 1:2417. D. A. Carson: Justifying Jesus: The Theme of Justification as Received by Paul from Jesus18. Peter Davids: Paul as a Follower of Jesus in 1 Corinthians19. John Nolland: ?Every Sin That a Person Commits is Outside the Body? (1 Cor. 6:18): Paul?s likely dependence on the Jesus tradition20. Christoph Stenschke: Continuities and Discontinuities between the Ministry of Jesus and the Mission of Paul21. Peter Turnill: You Would Not Believe If You Were Told: Jesus, Paul, and Jewish Eschatological Unbelief22. Nathan Ridlehoover: The Lord?s Prayer in Paul23. N. T. Wright: Understanding Jesus? Teaching for the Reader of Paul24. Greg Beale: Temple and Anti-Temple in Colossae