The New Cambridge Companion to Jesus

Serves as the most up to date guide for understanding Jesus' multifaceted legacy, covering historical, cultural, and theological aspects.

Markus Bockmuehl (Edited by)

9781009232999, Cambridge University Press

Paperback / softback, published 5 December 2024

440 pages
22.9 x 15.2 x 2.1 cm, 0.62 kg

'The volume represents a valuable contribution to the New Cambridge Companions series, and contains many important chapters, reflecting areas of current scholarship … it provides a solid overview and a good grounding in many topics relating to Jesus, and it is heartening to see how the conversation has progressed in the last twenty-five years.' Francis Cousins, Irish Theological Quarterly

The New Cambridge Companion to Jesus serves as the most up to date guide and resource for understanding Jesus' multifaceted legacy, enduring impact over time and space, and relevance in today's world. Integrating textual, historical, theological, and cultural perspectives, the essays, specially commissioned for this volume, also offer a fresh and diverse overview of Jesus' significance in contemporary global contexts. Key features include insights into Jesus' life and teachings, his role in different religious traditions, and his influence on art, music, and global cultures. The volume also addresses contemporary issues of poverty, race, and power dynamics, making it especially relevant for today's readers. The Companion offers a diversity of perspectives from which to approach the unique identity and importance of Jesus beyond the 2020s, whether in relation to Christianity's cultural and existential crises in the Americas, its precipitous decline in Western Europe, or its unprecedented growth and proliferation in Africa and Asia.

Introduction
Part I. Origins: 1. Life and aims of Jesus Dale C. Allison, Jr.
2. Jesus's religion, praxis and experience of God Lutz Doering
3. Jesus in the fourfold gospel J. Tyler Brown and Nathan Eubank
4. Paul's Jesus as the Christ Matthew Novenson
5. The risen Jesus Markus Bockmuehl
6. Jesus and the triune God Lewis Ayres
7. Jesus in the scriptures of Israel Jennie Grillo
Part II. The Diversity of Reception: 8. The apocryphal Jesus Jacob A. Rodriguez
9. The Islamic Jesus Nicolai Sinai
10. Jesus in Christian material culture Jeremiah Coogan
11. Jesus in art and music Robin Jensen and Jeremy Begbie
12. Jesus in the story of spirituality and worship Volker Leppin
Part III. Ethics, Theology and Critical Scholarship: 13. Jesus in Christian discipleship and ethics Rebekah Eklund
14. The body of Jesus in his people Thomas Joseph White, OP
15. The Church's Jesus in modern theology Emmanuel Durand, OP
16. The history of Jesus in biblical scholarship James Carleton Paget
IV. The Global Jesus Today: 17. The Jewish Jesus, in Christian and in Jewish memory Barbara U. Meyer
18. The racial Jesus Jonathan Tran
19. Jesus, power and the global poor Carlos Raúl Sosa Siliezar and Aruthuckal Varughese John
20. The Asian faces of Jesus K. K. Yeo
21. Jesus of Africa Diane B. Stinton and Victor I. Ezigbo
Part V. Outlook: 22. The future of Jesus of Nazareth: Yesterday, today, and tomorrow C. Kavin Rowe.

Subject Areas: Biblical studies & exegesis [HRCG]