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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...

entire Pauline doctrine is essentially concerned with Christ and his work; that is its essence.5 The real significance of Paul is that he has made the redemptive facts—the incarnation, the death and the resurrection of Christ—the foundation of religion.6 The history of redemption is the heart of Pauline Christianity.7 According to Wrede, it is therefore impossible to accept with the Coryphaei of the liberal theology (Holtzmann, Wellhausen, Harnack) that Paul is in truth the one who had understood
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