Description
What is Paul’s message to the early church and how can it be applied to the church and the world today? C. H. Dodd focuses on Paul’s Jewish background and how his encounter with the living Christ transformed his views of the people of God, the Law, the Messiah, justification, the Spirit, and God’s mission in the world. Throughout, Dodd credits Paul with being adaptive, creative, and able to pull together diverse strands of religious thought and experience into a coherent and powerful world of thought. Published originally in 1920, this analysis influenced generations of Pauline scholars and is still valuable today for its method, insight, and synthesis.
Table of Contents
Preface
Chapter 1. From Jesus to Paul
Chapter 2. A Citizen of No Mean City
Chapter 3. The Hope of the World
Chapter 4. The Quest of the Divine Commonwealth
Chapter 5. The Ancient Wrong
Chapter 6. The Tyranny of an Idea
Chapter 7. The Son of God
Chapter 8. The Decisive Battle
Chapter 9. Emancipation
Chapter 10. The Lord the Spirit
Chapter 11. The Divine Commonwealth Discovered
Chapter 12. The Life of the Divine Commonwealth
Appendix: A Letter from Paul the Missionary to the Society of Christians in Rome
