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Author Childs, Brevard S.

Title The church's guide for reading Paul : the canonical shaping of the Pauline Corpus / Brevard S. Childs.

Publication Info. Grand Rapids, Mich. : William B. Eerdmans Pub., 2008.

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 University of Saint Joseph: Pope Pius XII Library - Standard Shelving Location  227 C537C    Check Shelf
Description xi, 276 pages ; 23 cm
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Contents The search for Paul's theology -- Alternative proposals for the problem of interpretation -- The shaping of the Pauline corpus -- Exegetical probes : introduction and guidelines -- The canonical framing of the Pauline corpus -- Theological implications of the Pauline corpus for interpretation.
Summary Brevard Childs here turns his sharp scholarly eye to the works of the apostle Paul and makes an unusual argument: the New Testament was canonically shaped, its formation a hermeneutical exercise in which its anonymous apostles and postapostolic editors collected, preserved, and theologically shaped the material in order for the evangelical traditions to serve successive generations of Christians. Childs contends that within the New Testament the Pauline corpus stands as a unit bookended by Romans and the Pastoral Epistles. He assigns an introductory role to Romans, examining how it puts the contingencies of Paul's earlier letters into context without sacrificing their particularity. At the other end, the Pastoral Epistles serve as a concluding valorization of Paul as the church's doctrinal model. By considering Paul's works as a whole, Childs offers a way to gain a fuller understanding of the individual letters. - Publisher.
Subject Bible. Epistles of Paul -- Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Bible. New Testament -- Canon.
Bible. Epistles of Paul. (OCoLC)fst01808029
Bible. New Testament. (OCoLC)fst01808090
Paulus Apostel, approximately 1. Jh. Briefe. (DE-588)4075949-0
Rezeption. (DE-588)4049716-1
Hermeneutik. (DE-588)4128972-9
Theologie. (DE-588)4059758-1
Exegese. (DE-588)4015950-4
Historische Kritik. (DE-588)4160007-1
Paulusbriefe.
Rezeption.
Kanon.
Hermeneutik.
Exegese.
Theologie.
Paulus (Apostel). Briefe.
Bibeln. N.T. Paulus-breven.
Bibeln. N.T. -- kanon.
Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc. (OCoLC)fst01411635
ISBN 9780802862785 (paperback ; alkaline paper)
0802862780 (paperback ; alkaline paper)
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