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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...

The first kind of response has been to argue that the difference in Paul is not a diversion from the teaching of Jesus, but rather a development of it. The person most often associated with this view is Adolf von Harnack who argued that in freeing Christianity from Judaism, and transforming Jesus’ message of the fatherhood of God into a universal religion, Paul showed that he “was the one who understood the Master and continued his work.”10 Johannes Weiss further argued
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