Paul and Jesus: Origin and General Character of Paul’s Preaching of Christ
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Overview
In Paul and Jesus, Herman Ridderbos seeks to understand the preaching of Paul within the framework of the history of revelation. The book is an introduction to Paul in that it deals with the main perspectives of his preaching and critically compares the latter with the self-disclosure of Jesus. Although the primary aim of the work is to arrive at a clear understanding of the character of Paul’s preaching, Ridderbos carries on a continuous polemic with outstanding representatives of New Testament criticism and devotes considerable attention to the position of R. Bultmann, so that the subtitle of Paul and Jesus might well have been Revelation or Myth.
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Top Highlights
“the history of religion (religionsgeschichtliche interpretation).” (Page 6)
“Paul made religion into a religion of redemption; he sees Jesus arise as the savior of the world, in a great redemptive historical drama.” (Page 6)
“on the tradition known already to the established church” (Page 43)
Herman Ridderbos (1909–2007) was professor emeritus of New Testament at the Theological School of the Reformed Churches of the Netherlands at Kampen, where he served for over 40 years. His father, J. Ridderbos, was an Old Testament professor at the same seminary, and his brother, N. H. Ridderbos, was an Old Testament professor at the Free University of Amsterdam.
The author of many scholarly publications, Ridderbos was the editor of the Reformed Weekly (Kampen), one of the Netherlands’ leading ecclesiastical periodicals. He became well-known in America through his volume on Galatians in the New International Commentary on the Old and New Testament.