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In this volume, John Behr treats the first three centuries of the Christian era. Part I examines the establishment of Christianity in the first century based on the tradition of the Gospel, and briefly sketches the scriptural Christ as inscribed in the New Testament. Part II analyzes selected figures from the second century—Ignatius of Antioch, Justin Martyr, and Irenaeus of Lyons—considering...

The Christ who appears on the pages of the writings recognized as canonical Scripture, the Scriptural Christ, is always the crucified and risen one. By this I do not mean to undermine the historical specificity of the Passion (“once for all,” ἐφάπαξ, Rom 6:10; Heb 7:27), but to emphasize who it is that these texts describe. That they were all written after the Passion is obvious; that the proclamation, the kerygma, that the crucified and risen Jesus is Lord, so clear in
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