Beginning From Jerusalem - James Dunn - CHRISTIANITY IN THE MAKING

Beginning From Jerusalem - James D. G. Dunn

CHRISTIANITY IN THE MAKING Volume 2

This is the second volume in a projected trilogy Christianity in the Making, in which I allempt to trace and examine the history of Christianity's beginnings well into the second century. The first volume, Jesus Remembered, focused exclusively on the person to whom the origins of Christianity can undoubtedly betraced.

It included an exposition of the critical historical method on which the whole enterprise is undertaken, including recognition of the fact of faith as part of the historical data and of the fimction of faith as integral to the critical historical dialogue. These methodological considerations continue to guide the historical studies of the present volume. Some of the first volume's critique of the sources available to us for the period is also relevant here.

Beginning From Jerusalem - James D. G. Dunn - Джеймс Данн

Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Co.

Grand Rapids, Michigan

Cambridge
2009 - 1347 s.

ISBN 978-0-8028-3932-9

James D. G. Dunn - Джеймс Данн - Beginning From Jerusalem - Contents

List of Maps

Preface

PART SIX: WRITING A HISTORY OF CHRISTIANITY'S BEGINNINGS

20. The Quest for the Historical Church
21. The Sources

PART SEVEN: THE FIRST PHASE

22. Beginning in Jerusalem
23. The Earliest Community
24. The Hellenists and the First Outreach
25. The Emergence of Paul
26. The Mission of Peter
27. Crisis and Confrontation

PART EIGHT: APOSTLE TO THE GENTILES

28. Dates, Destinations and Distances
29. Paul the Apostle
30. Paul's Churches
31. The Aegean Mission: Phase One
32. The Aegean Mission: Phase Two
33. The Close of a Chapter

PART NINE: THE END OF THE BEGINNING

34. The Passion of Paul
35. The Voiceless Peter
36. Catastrophe in Judea
37. The Legacy of the First-Generation Leadership

Abbreviations
Bibliography
Index of Scriptures and Other Ancient Writings
Index of Authors
Index of Subjects

James D. G. Dunn - Джеймс Данн - Beginning From Jerusalem - Preface

This volume is the principal product of my research since I retired in 2003.

Retirement has diminished somewhat the opportunities for personal interaction with colleagues at home and elsewhere. So I am more grateful than I can express to those who were able to respond positively to my tentative requests for other specialists to cast critical eyes over the early drafts of the material. Others, sadly, were already overburdened and had to decline. I am particularly grateful to Loveday Alexander, Anthony Bash, Lutz Doering, John Kloppenborg, Bruce Longenecker, Barry Matlock, Scot McKnight, Bob Morgan, Greg Sterling, Steve Walton and Michael Wolter, some of whom must have spent many hours trailing through my material. They have saved me from many infelicities, spared me more than a few embarrassments, and given me cause to pause and think again at numerous points, and on a goodly number of occasions to re-write.

The remaining infelicities are my own. Nor was I persuaded at all points raised, but in most instances I hope that 1 have been able to strengthen the case made. In all this 1 include my publisher, William B. Eerdmans, whose willingness to send out various draft chapters to scattered destinations has been exemplary and whose encouragement has been unbounded. I am particularly grateful to my editor. Craig Noll, who has taken immense pains over a massive manuscript to ensure correctness of detail and consistency of style, and who has saved me from many a slip. And above all, 1 thank my beloved wife, Meta, who both tolerates and encourages my commitment to continuing my teaching and writing ministry.

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