Christ's First Theologian: The Shape of Paul’s Thought - Hardcover

Keck, Leander E.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1481303007 ISBN 13: 9781481303002

Publisher: Baylor University Press, 2015

Synopsis

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.

About this title

About the Author:

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

Review:

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)

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)

About this edition

• Publisher: Baylor University Press
• Publication date: 2015
• ISBN 10: 1481303007
• ISBN 13: 9781481303002
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 370