Paul, Grace and Freedom Essays in Honour of John K. Riches

by Middleton, Paul; Paddison, Angus; Wenell, Karen J.

• ISBN13: 9780567033185
• ISBN10: 056703318X
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2009-05-01
• Publisher: Bloomsbury T&T Clark

Summary

This collection of twelve essays will celebrate the distinguished contribution of Professor John Kenneth Riches to biblical interpretation.

Table of Contents

 

PART I: Grace and Human Agency in the New Testament and Other Writings

John Barclay, ‘Paul and Philo'

Troels Engberg-Pedersen, ‘Paul and the Stoics'

David Sim, ‘The Torah in Paul and Matthew: Two Early Christian Perspectives'

Joel Marcus, The Human Subject in the Gospel of Mark

Karen Wenell, ‘Law, Kingdom and Spirit in the Ethics of Jesus and Paul'

 

PART II: Paul and Grace in Historical Perspective

Paul Middleton, ‘"Dying we live": Paul and the Martyrs'

Stephen Chester, ‘Paul and Luther on Christian Freedom'

Christopher Rowland, ‘William Blake and Life in the Divine Body'

 

PART III: Readings of Paul in Africa

Gerald West, ‘Constructing African Christianity: The Voice of Paul in the Formative Teachings of Isaiah Shembe'

Leslie Milton, ‘"Your circumcision has become uncircumcision": context and culture in New Testament study'

 

PART IV - Theological Perspectives on the Law and Life 'In Christ'

Angus Paddison, ‘P.T. Forsyth, Ethics, and Regeneration'

Ben Quash, ‘The Law and the Spirit in Christian Life'

 

Afterword by John Riches