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Paul and Jesus: Origin and General Character of Paul’s Preaching of Christ is unavailable, but you can change that!

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...

2 Corinthians 5:16, one can in any case find no support for the opinion that Paul came under the control of Jesus’ ‘moral personality’ by his personal contact with Jesus. The question on what does Paul base his preaching of Jesus as the Christ is answered by Paul’s epistles and the book of Acts. This answer is twofold: first, on the revelation which he personally experienced, and second, on the tradition known already to the established church. Concerning the first point, Paul appeals
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