Fracture

This is a print on demand book and is therefore non- returnable. Since the advent of formal biblical criticism many have come to see the crucifixion as merely one event in the process of religious development. Yet for the New Testament writers it was so much more representing a radical break that forever affected their perception of God and the world. In this insightful work of careful critical scholarship Roy Harrisville examines the thought worlds of the New Testament writers showing how the cross fractured their previously held ideas causing a profound reorientation centered on the story of the cross. Focusing chronologically on Paul the Synoptic writers John and the authors of Hebrews and 1 Peter Harrisville demonstrates changes in the writers'' understanding of sacrifice law Hellenism apocalyptic and other areas — changes that created the new values of the radically different Christian community.