Steward of God's Mysteries: Paul and Early Church Tradition

by Jerry L. Sumney

One view that perennially springs up among biblical scholars is that Paul was the inventor of Christianity, or that Paul introduced the idea of a divine Christ to a church that earlier had simply followed the ethical teaching of a human Jesus. In this book Jerry Sumney responds to that claim by examining how, in reality, Paul drew on what the church already believed and confessed about Jesus.

As he explores how Paul's theology relates to that...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0802873618
• ISBN13: 9780802873613
• Release Date: September 2017
• Publisher: William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company
• Length: 223 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.1" x 9.2"