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About This Book
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.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Contents
- Preface
- PART I ENCOUNTERING THE APOSTLE
- 1 Images of Paul in the New Testament
- 2 Paul the Jew
- 3 The Quest for Paul’s Pharisaism
- 4 The Jewish Paul among the Gentiles
- 5 The Problem of Paul’s Continuing Jewishness
- PART II ENGAGING THE APOSTLE’S THOUGHT
- 6 Paul and Apocalyptic Theology
- 7 Paul as Thinker
- 8 The Logic of Paul’s Soteriology
- 9 Paul’s Understanding of Freedom
- 10 The Accountable Self
- 11 God the Other, Who Acts Otherwise
- 12 Justification of the Ungodly and Ethics
- PART III EXPLORATIONS IN ROMANS
- 13 What Makes Romans Tick?
- 14 Good News for Us Gentiles
- 15 Pathos in Romans?
- 16 The Post-Pauline Interpretation of Jesus’ Death in Romans 5:6-7
- 17 The Absent Good (Romans 7:18a)
- PART IV ENGAGED BY THE APOSTLE
- 18 What to Do with Paul?
- 19 Is Matthew Arnold Also among the Prophets?
- 20 What If Paul Is Right?
- 21 Faith Seeking Canonical Understanding
- Works Cited
- Details of Previous Publications
- Scripture and Ancient Sources Index