Resurrecting Jesus: The Renewal of New Testament Theology - Paperback

by Yung Suk Kim (Author)

Jesus cannot be domesticated! In Resurrecting Jesus Kim asks the fundamental two-prong question, "What, then, can we learn from Jesus, and how can we build on the significance of his life and work as we do theology for our day in the here and now?" Kim abandons the traditional divide between criticism and theology and argues that a solid New Testament theology can be reconstructed from a critical study of the historical Jesus. Jesus is put back into the context of first-century Judaism in Palestine. Resurrecting Jesus reexamines Jesus' life, work, death, and resurrection, giving readers
-a better, clearer understanding about the historical Jesus and the New Testament writings that refer to him;
-an exploration into the significance of Jesus' life, teaching, and death, based not on doctrine but on his work of God in first-century Judaism and Palestine; and
-a redefinition of New Testament theology that is a process of discerning and engaging the historical Jesus and the New Testament writings.

Author Biography

Yung Suk Kim is associate professor of New Testament and Early Christianity at the Samuel DeWitt Proctor School of Theology of Virginia Union University, in Richmond, Virginia. He is founding editor of the Journal of Bible and Human Transformation and the editor of the Journal of Race, Ethnicity, and Religion. He is the author of several books, including Christ's Body in Corinth (2008) and Truth, Testimony, and Transformation (Cascade, 2014).