The Church's Guide for Reading Paul: The Canonical Shaping of the Pauline Corpus
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The Church's Guide for Reading Paul: The Canonical Shaping of the Pauline Corpus  -     By: Brevard S. Childs

The Church's Guide for Reading Paul: The Canonical Shaping of the Pauline Corpus

Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Co. / 2008 / Paperback

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The dean of canonical criticism turns his scholarly gaze uponthe most influential and prolific of New Testament writers, the apostle Paul. Childs shows why our entire understanding of Christianity has been shaped by the way Paul's letters as a whole were eventually grouped from Romans to the Pastoral Epistles.

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Title: The Church's Guide for Reading Paul: The Canonical Shaping of the Pauline Corpus
By: Brevard S. Childs
Format: Paperback
Number of Pages: 288
Vendor: Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Co.
Publication Date: 2008
Dimensions: 9.00 X 6.00 (inches)
Weight: 14 ounces
ISBN: 0802862780
ISBN-13: 9780802862785
Stock No: WW862785

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Brevard Childs here turns his sharp scholarly eye to the works of the apostle Paul and makes an unusual argument: the New Testament was canonically shaped, its formation a hermeneutical exercise in which its anonymous apostles and postapostolic editors collected, preserved, and theologically shaped the material in order for the evangelical traditions to serve successive generations of Christians.

Childs contends that within the New Testament the Pauline corpus stands as a unit bookended by Romans and the Pastoral Epistles. He assigns an introductory role to Romans, examining how it puts the contingencies of Paul's earlier letters into context without sacrificing their particularity. At the other end, the Pastoral Epistles serve as a concluding valorization of Paul as the church's doctrinal model. By considering Paul's works as a whole, Childs offers a way to gain a fuller understanding of the individual letters.

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Brevard S. Childs (1923–2007) was Sterling Professor Emeritus of Divinity at Yale Divinity School. 

Author Bio

(1923–2007) Brevard S. Childs was Sterling Professor Emeritus of Divinity at Yale Divinity School. Among his many books are Biblical Theology in Crisis, Introduction to the Old Testament as Scripture, The New Testament as Canon, Old Testament Theology in a Canonical Context, and Biblical Theology of the Old and New Testament.

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Brevard Childs here turns his sharp scholarly eye to the works of the apostle Paul and makes an unusual argument: the New Testament was canonically shaped, its formation a hermeneutical exercise in which its anonymous apostles and postapostolic editors collected, preserved, and theologically shaped the material in order for the evangelical traditions to serve successive generations of Christians.

Childs contends that within the New Testament the Pauline corpus stands as a unit bookended by Romans and the Pastoral Epistles. He assigns an introductory role to Romans, examining how it puts the contingencies of Paul’s earlier letters into context without sacrificing their particularity. At the other end, the Pastoral Epistles serve as a concluding valorization of Paul as the church’s doctrinal model. By considering Paul’s works as a whole, Childs offers a way to gain a fuller understanding of the individual letters.

Editorial Reviews

Ellen F. Davis
— Duke Divinity School

"Here Brevard Childs offers his clearest statement of the continuities and differences between his canonical approach and historical criticism. The book has the character of a careful, probing conversation — punctuated by disagreement — that extends also to figural readings, postmodernism, and evangelical interpretation. His final gift is to demonstrate at length how central to all the church's work is wide-ranging, critical scriptural exegesis, guided by the Spirit and disciplined by participation in the church's life. This book will remain part of our conversation for years to come."

Joel B. Green
— Fuller Theological Seminary

"This is vintage Childs. Who else among modern Old or New Testament scholars turns so easily to and converses so effortlessly with the other Testament and its critical scholarship? From whom else would we expect so arresting an analysis of the historical development and theological significance of 'the canonical Paul'? It is as if Childs has hit the 'reset' button on Pauline studies — sometimes resurrecting interpretive issues long neglected, sometimes casting contemporary discussion in fresh light, always pressing for renewed discussion of the role of the canon for reading the wider Pauline corpus in and for the church."

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