Christianity in the Making (3 vols.)

by James D. G. Dunn

Publisher:

Eerdmans

, 2003–2015

Overview

James D.G. Dunn is one of the most renowned New Testament scholars of the present day. The fruit of a lifetime of scholarship, the now complete Christianity in the Making series is truly Dunn’s magnum opus. Through these volumes, Dunn traces the origins of Christianity from the time of Jesus in the New Testament, through its burgeoning with Peter, Paul, and James, to the Christological development of the Early Church Fathers in the first two centuries. Filled with penetrating insights and copious research, Dunn thoroughly explores the issues at the heart of who Jesus is how Christianity got its start.

Key Features

• Provides in-depth look at Christianity’s formation from the New Testament times through the first two centuries after Christ
• Contains a lifetime of insight from a world-class contemporary New Testament scholar
• Serves as ideal introduction to the issues surrounding the “quest for the historical Jesus”

Product Details

• Title: Christianity in the Making
• Author: James D.G. Dunn
• Series: Christianity in the Making
• Publisher: Eerdmans
• Volumes: 3
• Pages: 3,367
• Resource Type: Monographs
• Topic: New Testament

bout James D.G. Dunn

James D.G. Dunn (1939–) is emeritus Lightfoot Professor of Divinity at the University of Durham and is a leading British New Testament scholar. Dunn is a significant proponent of the New Perspective on Paul, and coined the term in a 1982 lecture. He received a PhD and DD from the University of Cambridge, and a MA and BD from the University of Glasgow. In 2002 he became only the third British scholar to be made the president of the Studiorum Novi Testamenti Societas.