IVP - Contagious Holiness

Contagious Holiness

Jesus' Meals with Sinners

(paperback)

Craig L. Blomberg

Add to Cart »

Order from Amazon.com »
Order from Christianbook.com »
Find a Christian Store Near You »

Product Details
Retail Price: $24.00
Your price: $19.20 (20% Off Retail)
Length: 216 pages
Size: 5 1/2 x 8 1/2 inches
Binding: paperback
Published: August 2005
ISBN: 978-0-8308-2620-9
IVP Order Code: 2620

Related Books
The Challenge of Jesus
The Jesus Quest
Jesus the Miracle Worker

Related Subjects
Biblical Studies--New Testament »
Jesus »
Theology »

About the Book

Honored in 2006 as a "Year's Best Book for Preachers" by Preaching magazine.

One of humanity's most basic and common practices--eating meals--was transformed by Jesus into an occasion of divine encounter. In sharing food and drink with his companions, he invited them to share in the grace of God. He revealed his redemptive mission while eating with sinners, repentant and unrepentant alike.

Jesus' "table fellowship" with sinners in the Gospels has been widely agreed to be historically reliable. However, this consensus has recently been challenged, for example, by the claim that the meals in which Jesus participated took the form of Greco-Roman symposia--or that the "sinners" involved were the most flagrantly wicked within Israel's society, not merely the ritually impure or those who did not satisfy strict Pharisaic standards of holiness.

In this excellent and thorough study, Craig L. Blomberg engages with the debate and opens up the significance of the topic. He surveys meals in the Old Testament and the intertestamental period, examines all the Gospel texts relevant to Jesus' eating with sinners, and concludes with contemporary applications.