Books written by Gerd Theissen

The Miracle Stories of the Early Christian Tradition

The Miracle Stories of the Early Christian Tradition
The Social Setting of Jesus and the Gospels

With contributions by known scholars around the world, this volume moves beyond many of the impasses in historical Jesus research.
The Social Setting of Jesus and the Gospels

Contributions by internationally known scholars from the United States, Germany, Scotland, Spain, and Canada move beyond many of the impasses in historical Jesus research.
The Social Setting of Pauline Christianity: Essays on Corinth

Together these four essays provide a composite picture of the social stratification at this ancient urban center and of the concrete organizational and ethical problems that that stratification engendered for the Christians' common life.
The Shadow of the Galilean

This is a story of our times, or how the gospels might have turned out if they were written by John Le Carre: racy, readable and full of incident.
Texttranszendenz: Beiträge zu einer polyphonen Bibelhermeneutik

... 2016, 354 S., 34,90€, br., ISBN 978-3-643-12746-4 Dennis Solon Rechtfertigung der Sünder und Solidarität mit den Opfern Eine befreiungstheologische Auslegung des Römerbriefs Bd. 26, 2015, 296 S., 34,90€, br., ISBN 978-3-643-12725-9 ...
Veränderungspräsenz und Tabubruch: Die Ritualdynamik urchristlicher Sakramente

... br., ISBN 978-3-643-12746-4 Dennis Solon Rechtfertigung der Sünder und Solidarität mit den Opfern Eine befreiungstheologische Auslegung des Römerbriefs Bd. 26, 2015, 296 S., 34,90€, br., ISBN 978-3-643-12725-9 Hannelore Jauss Der ...
Kontraintuitivität und Paradoxie: Zur kognitiven Analyse urchristlichen Glaubens

... 2016, 354 S., 34,90€, br., ISBN 978-3-643-12746-4 Dennis Solon Rechtfertigung der Sünder und Solidarität mit den Opfern Eine befreiungstheologische Auslegung des Römerbriefs Bd. 26, 2015, 296 S., 34,90€, br., ISBN 978-3-643-12725-9 ...
The New Testament: A Literary History

Gerd Theissen describes the emergence of the New Testament canon out of the wide variety of early Christian literature, drawing on Max Weber's discussion of the evolution of religious organizations.
On Having a Critical Faith

This book, ' Dr Theissen remarks, 'means more to me than any other of my writings. The ideas in it go back to my student days, and my dissatisfaction then...
Fortress Introduction to the New Testament

All the main issues for reading the New Testament are covered in this exciting new introduction by one of the world's foremost biblical scholars.
The First Followers of Jesus: A Sociological Analysis of the Earliest Christianity

This title provides a sociological investigation into the life of the early Church by one of the 20th-century's leading biblical scholars.
Sociology of Early Palestinian Christianity

Sociology of Early Palestinian Christianity
Die Religion der ersten Christen: Eine Theorie des Urchristentums

In diesem Buch zeigt Gerd Theißen, was die ersten Christen in ihrem Innersten bewegte. Sein Werk ist eine religionswissenschaftliche Beschreibung und Analyse des urchristlichen Glaubens.
The Historical Jesus: A Comprehensive Guide

Comprehensively detailing the sources for our knowledge of Jesus, Theissen and Merz fully explore the historical and social context of Jesus and his activity.
The Religion of the Earliest Churches: Creating a Symbolic World

... numinous subjects ( gods , angels and demons ) transform ( or will transform ) a fragile state of reality into a stable state . Cf. Fritz Stolz , ' Der mythische Umgang mit der Rationalität und der rationale Umgang mit dem Mythos ' , in ...
Der Schatten des Galiläers: Jesus und seine Zeit in erzählender Form

... ausgestoßen? In die Wüste getrieben?« »Ja!« »Aber warum irrst du dann durch diese Totenlandschaft, anstatt nach Jericho oder Jerusalem zu gehen?« »Wer von der Gemeinde ausgestoßen wurde, darf keinen Kontakt mit anderen aufnehmen. Er ...
The Quest for the Plausible Jesus: The Question of Criteria

This book is a cooperative project between Dagmar Winter and Gerd Theissen and represents the fruit of many years of their research on the historical Jesus.
A Theory of Primitive Christian Religion

Gerd Theissen argues that neither a theology of the New Testament nor a history of the early church can do justice to all the dimensions of the earliest Christianity, which...
The Historical Jesus: A Comprehensive Guide

Comprehensively detailing the sources for our knowledge of Jesus, Theissen and Merz fully explore the historical and social context of Jesus and his activity. They then unfold what we can...