Kerygma and Didache: The Articulation and Structure of the Earliest Christian Message

McDonald, James I. H.

ISBN 10: 0521220556 / ISBN 13: 9780521220552

Published by Cambridge University Press, United Kingdom, 1980

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hardback, octavo, a very good tightly bound copy in a lightly soiled dust wrapper, the text is clean and free of markings, 247pp.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Kerygma and Didache: The Articulation and Structure of the Earliest Christian Message
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press, United Kingdom
• Publication Date: 1980
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0521220556
• ISBN 13: 9780521220552
• Binding: hardback
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Condition: Very Good
• Dust Jacket Condition: Good

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Synopsis

Dr McDonald studies the fundamental structures and procedures of Christian communication, identified as propheteia (the prophetic), and paraclesis and homilia (the homiletic), paraenesis and catechesis (the catechetic), and paradosis (the transmission of tradition). He explores what lies behind each of them as well as the way they are used by Jesus and the early Church. Both kerygmatic and didactic features are found in all of these structures. This study is important in providing a corrective to inadequate or one-sided views of kerygma. Like other monographs in this series, it presents through cogent argument and well-organized evidence a thesis which will be of interest to all concerned with New Testament studies and with the transmission of the Christian faith.

Book Description

Dr McDonald studies the fundamental structures and procedures of Christian communication. He explores what lies behind each of them as well as the way they are used by Jesus and the early Church. Both kerygmatic and didactic features are found in all of these structures.