Cynics, Paul and the Pauline Churches

F. Gerald Downing is Vicar of the parish of St. Simon and St. Jude, Great Lever, Bolton. He is the author of numerous books including Christ and the Cynics (JSOT/SAC 1998) and Cynics and Christian Origins (T & T Clark 1992).

• 1: A Cynic Preparation for Paul's Gospel for Jew and Greek, Slave and Free, Male and Female 1; 2: Scholarly Perceptions of Cynics, and of Cynics and Early Christians; and Our Sources; 3: Why then the Law?; 4: Already the Sceptre and the Kingdom; 5: Troubles Invited, Troubles Withstood; 6: Paul the Teacher and Pastor; 7: One God, One Lord 1; 8: Paul, an ‘Anomalous' Jew 1; 9: Stoic And Epicurean Strands; 10: Paul and Other Early Christians, and their Traditions of Jesus; and Jesus; 11: Conclusions

'Downing writes with an excitement which ... is itself persuasive. He also writes with a historian's sensitivity to the fragility of all evidence from so remote a date.' - C.J.A. Hickling, Journal of Theological Studies'This is a stimulating and thought-provoking book.' - Christopher Tuckett, Theology