Cole, Alan2019-09-252019-09-252016-09-241950http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12424/157625"This study does not claim to be exhaustive, nor indeed dare it claim to be truly scholarly in the full sense of that much-abused word. Nevertheless it does claim to be truly exegetical, and if it succeeds in introducing non-specialist students to the fascinating study of Christian origins, and thereby strengthening their faith in the integrity and homogeneity of the Christian message as contained in the pages of the New Testament, the author will be well content. Where the New Testament evidence is concerned, an attempt has been made as far as possible to restrict the choice to Matthaean material, along with that to be found in the earlier chapters of Acts. Here, if anywhere, is the mind of orthodox Hebrew Christianity expressing itself quite apart from Pauline formulation. Few Protestant scholars would support a chronological primacy of Matthew, but its indisputable ‘psychological primacy’ makes it invaluable in a study of this nature."engWith permission of the license/copyright holderNew TempleCatecheticsChurchNew TestamentBiblical TheologyNew TestamentBiblical TheologiesDogmaticsSacraments/communityArticle