The Church's Guide for Reading Paul <subTitle>The Canonical Shaping of the Pauline Corpus</subTitle> </titleInfo> <titleInfo> <title/> </titleInfo> <name type="personal"> <namePart>Childs, Brevard S.</namePart> <role> <roleTerm authority="marcrelator" type="text">creator</roleTerm> </role> </name> <name type="personal"> <namePart/> <namePart type="date">(1923-2007)</namePart> <role> <roleTerm authority="marcrelator" type="text">creator</roleTerm> </role> </name> <name type="personal"> <namePart/> <role> <roleTerm authority="marcrelator" type="text">creator</roleTerm> </role> <role> <roleTerm type="text">Author</roleTerm> </role> </name> <typeOfResource>text</typeOfResource> <originInfo> <place> <placeTerm type="code" authority="marccountry">6:1</placeTerm> </place> <place> <placeTerm type="text">U.S.A</placeTerm> </place> <publisher>William B. Eerdmans</publisher> <dateIssued>2008</dateIssued> <issuance>monographic</issuance> </originInfo> <language> <languageTerm authority="iso639-2b" type="code">eng</languageTerm> </language> <physicalDescription> <extent>276tr.</extent> <extent>Paperback</extent> <extent>23cm</extent> </physicalDescription> <abstract>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 post-apostolic editors collected, preserved, and theologically shaped the material 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.</abstract> <note type="statement of responsibility">Brevard S. Childs</note> <subject> <topic>Bible -- New Testament</topic> </subject> <subject> <topic>Bible -- Epistles of Paul</topic> </subject> <subject> <topic>Bible -- Epistles of Paul -- Criticism, interpretation, etc</topic> </subject> <subject> <topic>Bible -- New Testament -- Canon</topic> </subject> <classification authority="ddc">227.012</classification> <classification authority="ddc">C537-B83</classification> <identifier type="isbn">9780802862785</identifier> <identifier type="uri">https://data.thuviencodoc.org/books/ImageCover/2022/11/1/_017709867_140.jpg</identifier> <location> <url displayLabel="Cover Image">https://data.thuviencodoc.org/books/ImageCover/2022/11/1/_017709867_140.jpg</url> </location> <recordInfo> <recordContentSource authority="marcorg">1</recordContentSource> <recordCreationDate encoding="marc">2022-1</recordCreationDate> <recordChangeDate encoding="iso8601">20260119070816.0</recordChangeDate> </recordInfo> </mods>