The History of the Christ: The Foundation of New Testament Theology

by Adolf Schlatter

Publisher:

Baker Academic

, 1997

Overview

Appearing for the first time in English, The History of the Christ is a translation of Adolf Shclatter’s first volume of his New Testament Theology series. This volume allows readers to access the foundational components of Schlatter’s understanding of how the New Testament writers thought about Christ, his teachings, and his work on the cross.

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Key Features

• Allows readers to access the foundational components of Schlatter’s work
• Presents a traditional Lutheran understanding of the New Testament
• Includes the first English edition of Schlatter’s first volume of his New Testament Theology series

Praise for the Print Edition

Because of his immense, unbelievable learning and his theological insights into the heart of the New Testament message, Schlatter’s Theology of the Apostles has been a standard work of New Testament research.

—Martin Hengel, professor, Unversity of Tübingen

We should have listened to Adolf Schlatter’s profound and prescient voice more than we did in the twentieth century. This welcome new translation will help us do so in the twenty-first.

—John G. Stackhouse, professor, Regent College

The excellent new translation will gain many new readers for one of the truly classic New Testament theologies. Careful readers will learn again and again from the genius, piety, and passion of this great theologian, especially in the area of Christian ethics.

—Robert Morgan, professor, Oxford University

Even those who disagree with Schlatter here and there will find their understanding of New Testament [t]heology mightily stimulated and enriched.

—D. A. Carson, professor of New Testament, Trinity Evangelical Divinity School

Product Details

• Title: The History of the Christ: The Foundation for New Testament Theology
• Author: Adolf Schlatter
• Publisher: Baker Academic
• Print Publication Date: 1997
• Logos Release Date: 2014
• Pages: 448
• Language: English
• Resources: 1
• Format: Digital › Logos Research Edition
• Subject: Jesus Christ › Person and offices
• ISBNs: 9781441221681, 0801020891, 9780801020896, 1441221689
• Resource ID: LLS:HSTCHRSTTSTMNTH
• Resource Type: Monograph
• Metadata Last Updated: 2022-09-30T00:37:35Z

About Adolf Schlatter

Adolf Schlatter (1852–1938) was a conservative Lutheran theologian, a lecturer at Berne, and professor of New Testament and systematic theology at Greifswald University and Tübingen. One of the most prolific New Testament scholars of the twentieth century, Schlatter produced more than 400 separate scholarly articles on the New Testament. He was educated at Oxford. Scholar Robert Morgan noted that Schlatter “is perhaps the only ‘conservative’ New Testament scholar since [Johann Albrecht] Bengel who can be rated in the same class as [F. C.] Baur, [William] Wrede, [Wilhelm] Bousset, and [Rudolph] Bultmann.” Schlatter actively opposed the proliferation of theological liberalism in Germany stemming from Enlightenment rationalism, speaking often at conferences and in churches in support of traditional Protestant theology, and was influential on Dietrich Bonhoeffer. His many works include Faith in the New Testament, The Letter of James, and The Letter to the Galatians.