Heirs of Paul: Paul's Legacy in the New Testament and in the Church Today [Paperback]

J. Christiaan Beker (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: September 1991

Illuminating essays on the authority of the Christian preacher, Christian-Jewish relations, the Christian's political responsibility, the Church's ministry to the poor, New Testament eschatology, and the Church's attitude toward divorce and remarriage.

--This text refers to an alternate Paperback edition.

Product Details

• Paperback: 146 pages
• Publisher: Fortress Pr (September 1991)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0800625250
• ISBN-13: 978-0800625252
• Product Dimensions: 7.8 x 5.1 x 1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 1.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,313,457 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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1.0 out of 5 stars Simply Academic Musings, May 18, 2010

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This review is from: Heirs of Paul: Their Legacy in the New Testament and the Church Today (Paperback)

For serious biblical scholars of the textus receptus, this book reads like utter nonsense. The author's main premise is that many of Paul's epistles were forged and rewritten in order to meet the needs of the time. His primary method of analysis is comparative, textual criticism which is better suited to fictional literature. He offers no conclusive evidence to prove his claims and just assumes the reader will continue following his thesis with a willing suspension of disbelief. Perhaps, because of this faulty premise, the writing appears disjointed and strung together like a drowning syllogism gasping for air. His efforts are obviously the result of the academic pressure to either publish or perish. You're lucky if you can find it, like I did, in a thrift store for a dollar.