Reading Backwards: Figural Christology and the Fourfold Gospel Witness

by Richard B. Hays

Book Overview

In Reading Backwards Richard B. Hays maps the shocking ways the four Gospel writers interpreted Israel's Scripture to craft their literary witnesses to the Church's one Christ. The Gospels' scriptural imagination discovered inside the long tradition of a resilient Jewish monotheism a novel and revolutionary Christology.

Modernity's incredulity toward the Christian faith partly rests upon the characterization of early Christian preaching...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1481302337
• ISBN13: 9781481302333
• Release Date: August 2016
• Publisher: Baylor University Press
• Length: 177 Pages
• Weight: 0.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.4" x 8.4"