Renewing New Testament Christology

Lee Keck has at last offered us the fruits--or better yet, the distillation--of a lifetime of learning. The long deferral of the book's publication has only deepened its savor and its value, like the aging of fine wine. As at Cana, we readers are guests at the feast, grateful guests who are unexpectedly receiving the best wine last. Reader, drink deeply. --Richard B. Hays, Duke Divinity School Leander Keck's new book commends and illustrates the doing of New Testament Christology. Laden with pithy insights into the methodological moves and commitments that have shaped approaches to New Testament Christology, the book boldly challenges those approaches for failing to do justice to the logic of NT Christology. Keck's work is often provocative, not because he sets out to be an agent provocateur, but because he astutely lays out the Christological logic of various New Testament texts (Matthew, Romans, John, and Hebrews), allowing these texts themselves to provoke the reader to read them afresh. --Marianne Meye Thompson, Fuller Theological Seminary In pinpointing what makes biblical books tick, Leander Keck is peerless. Here the dean of North American biblical theology distills a lifetime's study in a volume conveying more erudition and incisiveness than most five times its length. For all who care about why Jesus matters in the New Testament, this book is essential: both signpost and stimulus for further investigation. --Clifton Black, Princeton Theological Seminary