Georg Strecker's volume explores the New Testament, focusing on Paul, Jesus, the Synoptics, John, and the General Letters. He advocates for a diverse range of theologies rather than a singular perspective, using a redaction-critical approach to reveal the unique viewpoints and complexities within the New Testament writings.
Contents are the theological conceptions of the authors of the New Testament, considered from systematic viewpoints, in the following sequence: Paul, the synoptics (Jesus, the saying-source), the Johannine literature (including the Apocalypse of John), the deutero-Pauline writings, the catholic epistles.
This magisterial work by Georg Strecker, Professor of New Testament in the Theological Faculty at the University of Gottingen deals with the history of the literary forms and genres of the New Testament and is available for the first time in English translation.