Resources, N.T. Wright

Contents

Part I, Introduction

1. Christian Origins and the New Testament

Part II, Tools for the Task

2. Knowledge: Problems and Varieties
3. Literature, Story and the Articulation of Worldviews
4. History and the First Century
5. Theology, Authority and the New Testament

Part III, First-Century Judaism within the Graeco-Roman World

6. The Setting and the Story
7. The Developing Diversity
8. Story, Symbol, Praxis: Elements of Israel’s Worldview
9. The Beliefs of Israel
10. The Hope of Israel

Part IV, The First Christian Century

11. The Quest for the Kerygmatic Church
12. Praxis, Symbol and Questions: Inside Early Christian Worldviews
13. Stories in Early Christianity (1)
14. Stories in Early Christianity (2)
15. The Early Christians: A Preliminary Sketch

Part V, Conclusion

16. The New Testament and the Question of God

Appendix: Chronological Chart of Second-Temple Jewish History and of Early Christianity

Contents

Part I, Introduction

1. Jesus Then and Now
2. Heavy Traffic on Wredebahn: The ‘New Quest’ Renewed?
3. Back to the Future: The ‘Third Quest’
4. Prodigals and Paradigms

Part II, Profile of a Prophet

5. The Praxis of a Prophet
6. Stories of the Kingdom (1): Announcement
7. Stories of the Kingdom (2): Invitation, Welcome, Challenge and Summons
8. Stories of the Kingdom (3): Judgment and Vindidcation
9. Symbol and Controversy
10. The Questions of the Kingdom

Part III, The Aims and Beliefs of Jesus

11. Jesus and Israel: The Meaning of Messiahship
12. The Reasons for Jesus’ Crucifixion
13. The Return of the King

Part IV, Conclusion

14. Results

Appendix: Kingdom of God in Early Christian Literature

Contents

Part I, Setting the Scene

1. The Target and the Arrows
2. Shadows, Souls and Where They Go: Life Beyond Death in Ancient Paganism
3. Time to Wake Up (1): Death and Beyond in the Old Testament
4. Time to Wake Up (2): Hope Beyond Death in Post-Biblical Judaism

Part II, Resurrection in Paul

5. Resurrection in Paul (Outside the Corinthian Correspondence)
6. Resurrection in Corinth (1): Introduction
7. Resurrection in Corinth (2): The Key Passages
8. When Paul Saw Jesus

Part III, Resurrection in Early Christianity (Apart from Paul)

9. Hope Refocused (1): Gospel Traditions Outside the Easter Narratives
10. Hope Refocused (2): Other New Testament Writings
11. Hope Refocused (3): Non-Canonical Early Christian Texts
12. Hope in Person: Jesus as Messiah and Lord

Part IV, The Story of Easter

13. General Issues in the Easter Stories
14. Fear and Trembling: Mark
15. Earthquakes and Angels: Matthew
16. Burning Hearts and Broken Bread: Luke
17. New Day, New Tasks: John

Part V, Belief, Event and Meaning

18. Easter and History
19. The Risen Jesus as the Son of God

Contents

Part I, Paul and His World

1. Return of the Runaway?
2. Like Birds Hovering Overhead: the Faithfulness of the God of Israel
3. Athene and Her Owl: the Wisdom of the Greeks
4. A Cock for Asclepius: ‘Religion’ and ‘Culture’ in Paul’s World
5. The Eagle Has Landed: Rome and the Challenge of Empire

The Mindset of the Apostle

6. A Bird in the Hand? The Symbolic Praxis of Paul’s World
7. The Plot, the Plan and the Storied Worldview
8. Five Signposts to the Apostolic Mindset

Paul’s Theology

9. The One God of Israel, Freshly Reworked
10. The People of God, Freshly Reworked
11. God’s Future for the World, Freshly Imagined

Paul in History

12. The Lion and the Eagle: Paul in Caesar’s Empire
13. A Different Sacrifice: Paul and ‘Religion’
14. The Foolishness of God: Paul among the Philosophers
15. To Know the Place for the First Time: Paul and His Jewish Context
16. Signs of the New Creation: Paul’s Aims and Achievements

Contents

Introduction

1. Christ, the Law, and ‘Pauline Theology’

Part I, Studies in Paul’s Christology

2. Adam, Israel and the Messiah
3. Χριστός as ‘Messiah’ in Paul: Philemon 6
4. Jesus Christ is Lord: Philippians 2.5-11
5. Poetry and Theology in Colossians 1:15-20
6. Monotheism, Christology and Ethics: 1 Corinthians 8

Part Two: Paul and the Law

7. Curse and Covenant: Galatians 3.10-14
8. The Seed and the Mediator: Galatians 3.15-20
9. Reflected Glory: 2 Corinthians 3
10. The Vindication of the Law: Narrative Analysis and Romans 8.1-11
11. The Meaning of περὶ ἁμαρτίας in Romans 8.3
12. Echoes of Cain in Romans 7

Conclusion: The Climax of the Covenant

13. Christ, the Law and the People of God: the Problem of Romans 9-11
14. The Nature of Pauline Theology

Contents

Part I, Oxford and Cambridge

1. The Paul of History and the Apostle of Faith (1978)
2. Justification: The Biblical Basis and Its Relevance for Contemporary Evangelicalism (1980)
3. Godliness and Good Learning: Cranfield’s Romans (1980)
4. A New Tübingen School? Ernst Kasemann and His Commentary on Romans (1982)
5. On Becoming the Righteousness of God: 2 Corinthians 5.21 (1993)

Part II, Lichfield and Westminster

6. Gospel and Theology in Galatians (1994)
7. Romans and the Theology of Paul (1995)
8. Two Radical Jews: A Review Article of Daniel Boyarin, A Radical Jew: Paul and the Politics of Identity (1996)
9. The Law in Romans 2 (1996)
10. Paul, Arabia and Elijah (Galatians 1.17) (1996)
11. New Exodus, New Inheritance: The Narrative Substructure of Romans 3-8 (1999)
12. Paul’s Gospel and Caesar’s Empire (2000)
13. The Letter to the Galatians: Exegesis and Theology (2000)
14. The Shape of Justification (2001)
15. Coming Home to St Paul? Reading Romans a Hundred Years After Charles Gore (2002)
16. Paul and Caesar: A New Reading of Romans (2002)
17. Communion and Koinonia: Pauline Reflections on Tolerance and Boundaries (2002)

Part III, Durham

18. New Perspectives on Paul (2003)
19. Redemption from the New Perspective? Towards a Multi-layered Pauline Theology of the Cross (2004)
20. Paul as Preacher: The Gospel Then and Now (2007)
21. 4QMMT and Paul: Justification, ‘Works’ and Eschatology (2006)
22. Reading Paul, Thinking Scripture: ‘Atonement’ as a Special Study (2007)
23. Christ in You, the Hope of Glory’ (Colossians 1.27): Eschatology in St Paul (2008)
24. Romans 9-11 and the ‘New Perspective’ (2009)
25. Whence and Whither Pauline Studies in the Life of the Church? (2010)
26. Justification: Yesterday, Today and For Ever (2010)
27. Paul and Empire (2010)

Part IV, St Andrews

28. Mind, Spirit, Soul and Body: All for One and One for All- Reflections on Paul’s Anthropology in His Complex Contexts (2011)
29. Paul in Current Anglophone Scholarship (2012)
30. Romans 2:17–3:9: A Hidden Clue to the Meaning of Romans? (2012)
31. Messiahship in Galatians? (2012)
32. Israel’s Scriptures in Paul’s Narrative Theology (2012)
33. Paul and the Patriarch: The Role(s) of Abraham in Galatians and Romans (2013)