Steward of God's Mysteries Paul and Early Church Tradition |
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| Author:
| Sumney, Jerry L. |
| Foreword by:
| Gray, Patrick T. |
| ISBN: | 978-0-8028-7361-3 |
| Publication Date: | Sep 2017 |
| Publisher: | William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company
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| Book Format: | Paperback |
| List Price: | USD $28.00 |
Book Description:
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One view that perennially springs up among biblical scholars is that Paul was the inventor of Christianity, or that Paul introduced the idea of a divine Christ to a church that earlier had simply followed the ethical teaching of a human Jesus. In this book Jerry Sumney responds to that claim by examining how, in reality, Paul drew on what the churc
One view that perennially springs up among biblical scholars is that Paul was the inventor of Christianity, or that Paul introduced the idea of a divine Christ to a church that earlier had simply followed the ethical teaching of a human Jesus. In this book Jerry Sumney responds to that claim by examining how, in reality, Paul drew on what the churc