The Death of Jesus: Some Reflections on Jesus-Traditions and Paul

ISBN-13: 9783161521140 / Angielski / Twarda / 2013 / 226 str.

Alexander J. M. Wedderburn

Opis

The death of Jesus and its interpretation present both exegetes and theologians with a puzzle. For Jesus himself seems to have left his followers few clues, and the story of his passion is ambivalent, embracing both his reluctant self-surrender in Gethsemane and his reproachful cry on Golgatha. Some of the various motifs and images used by his followers to explain this event were taken over by Paul despite the opposition he saw between the message of the cross and any human wisdom. Yet what meaning do two of the central themes of his soteriology, the corporate, representative role of Christ and the language of "righteousness" and "justification" hold for us today? Or does Paul offer just as little help here as Jesus himself did?

O autorze

Born 1942; Graduate of Oxford University (BA, MA), Edinburgh University (BD) and Cambridge University (PhD); 1972-1989, Tutorial Assistant, then Lecturer University of St Andrews; 1990-1994 Lecturer, then Senior Lecturer Durham University; 1994-2006 Professor of New Testament, Evangelisch-Theologische Fakultät, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München; since 2006 retired.