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Perspectives of Jesus in the Writings of Paul: A Historical Examination of Shared Core Commitments with a View to Determining the Extent of Paul’s Dependence on Jesus is unavailable, but you can change that!

Was Paul shaped by the movement that began with the teaching and activities of Jesus, or did he start something new? Attempts to answer this question one way or the other have a long history dating back to the nineteenth century. Gerry Schoberg raises the question again in light of more recent scholarship—especially in light of historical Jesus research and the so-called “New Perspective” on...

argued that Paul had taken Jesus’ message of piety based on the fatherhood of God and had transformed it, according to his own Pharisaic presuppositions, into a universal religion that emphasized a distinctive means of salvation. And in suggesting that Jesus’ message was the more powerful of the two, Wendt implied that the church ought to go back past Paul to Jesus.5 William Wrede added fuel to the fire by arguing that in moving from the religion of Jesus, which called people to yield their whole
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