Christ's First Theologian: The Shape of Paul's Thought

by Leander E. Keck

Overview

For half a century Leander Keck thought, taught, and wrote about the New Testament. He first served as a Professor of New Testament at Vanderbilt Divinity School and Emory University’s Candler School of Theology before becoming Dean and Professor of Biblical Theology at Yale Divinity School. Keck’s lifelong work on Jesus and Paul was a catalyst for the emerging discussions of New Testament Christology and Pauline theology in the Society of Biblical Literature and the Studiorum Novi Testamenti Societas. Keck wrote a staggering number of now industry-standard articles on the New Testament. Here, they are all collected for the first time. In Christ's First Theologian and Why Christ Matters, readers will discover how Keck gave new answers to old questions even as he carefully reframed old answers into new questions. Keck’s work is a treasure trove of historical, exegetical, and theological interpretation.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781481304474
Publisher:	Baylor University Press
Publication date:	07/15/2015
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	370
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About the Author

Leander E. Keck is Winkley Professor Emeritus of Biblical Theology at Yale Divinity School.

Table of Contents

Preface
PART I. ENCOUNTERING THE APOSTLE
1 Images of Paul in the New Testament
2 Paul the Jew
3 The Quest for Paul's Pharisaism
4 The Jewish Paul among the Gentiles
5 The Problem of Paul's Continuing Jewishness

PART II. ENGAGING THE APOSTLE'S THOUGHT
6 Paul and Apocalyptic Theology
7 Paul as Thinker
8 The Logic of Paul's Soteriology
9 Paul's Understanding of Freedom
10 The Accountable Self
11 God the Other, Who Acts Otherwise
12 Justification of the Ungodly and Ethics

PART III. EXPLORATIONS IN ROMANS
13 What Makes Romans Tick?
14 Good News for Us Gentiles
15 Pathos in Romans?
16 The Post-Pauline Interpretation of Jesus' Death in Romans 5:6-7
17 The Absent Good (Romans 7:18a)

PART IV. ENGAGED BY THE APOSTLE
18 What to Do with Paul?
19 Is Matthew Arnold Also among the Prophets?
20 What If Paul Is Right?
21 Faith Seeking Canonical Understanding

What People are Saying About This

From the Publisher

Independent thinking, sound judgment, generous criticism, theological acuity.

— Matthew V. Novenson, Senior Lecturer in New Testament and Christian Origins, University of Edinburgh

Decades long in the making…to be welcomed by all.

— M. Eugene Boring, I. Wylie Briscoe Professor of New Testament, Emeritus, Brite Divinity School, Texas Christian University

Stellar contributions from one of the outstanding New Testament scholars of the last half-century.

— Beverly Gaventa, Distinguished Professor of New Testament, Baylor University

Keck’s incisive, magisterial essays are essential reading for all who want to understand New Testament criticism in the twentieth century: its findings, its foibles, and its future prospects.

— Richard B. Hays, Dean and George Washington Ivey Professor of New Testament, Duke Divinity School

Editorial Reviews

These essays are creative and valuable for New Testament scholarship.

— Wendell Willis Restoration Quarterly

The mature reflections of a seasoned scholar, these essays will be most beneficial to graduate students who are trying to find their way through the thicket of Pauline theology and to teachers and pastors who have a passion for this great apostle.

— Frank J. Matera Interpretation: A Journal of Bible and Theology

Keck exercises sound judgment and follows solid exegetical techniques to bring these collected articles into publication. Baylor University Press is to be commended for making these available.

— Jeffrey L. Cockrell Review of Biblical Literature

From the Publisher