This collection of exegetical and theological essays on the themes of New Testament Christology and ethics reflects the important contributions to those fields made by Richard B. Hays, in some cases building on and in other cases challenging his stimulating work.

Stimulated by the signal contributions that New Testament scholar Richard B. Hays has made to Christology and Christian ethics, the essays collected here carry forward conversations involving close studies of particular passages in the Gospels and Epistles and wider-ranging forays into big questions in those fields. Some essays build on Hays’s work, pushing forward in new directions on questions of scriptural intertextuality, Christology, and participation in Christ. Others challenge his work on questions of method and substance alike. But all reflect appreciation for the advances made by this giant of twentieth and twenty-first century New Testament scholarship.

Part I: Gospels

1. Matthew’s Authoritative Jesus: Reading Matthew 15 through a Deuteronomic LensKathy Barrett Dawson

2. God Attested by Men: Echoes of Jonah and the Identification of Jesus with Israel’s God in the Storm-Stilling Stories of Matthew’s Gospel David M. Moffitt

3. Good Trees Produce Good Fruit: Is Obedience Automatic According to the New Testament? Nathan Eubank

Part II: Epistles

4. People of the Gospel: Participation in Christ and Paul’s Self-Portrayal in 1 Corinthians 1–4 Dustin W. Ellington

5. Washed, Sanctified, Justified: 1 Corinthians 6 and Baptismal Participation in Christ Isaac Augustine Morales, O.P.

6. Resurrection Reconsidered: The Corinthian Denial and Paul’s Response Leroy Andrew Huizenga

7. The Faith of Richard Hays: Seeking the Narrative Substructure of Paul’s Thought Bradley R. Trick

8. Performing the Psalms with Jesus: Christ and Community in the Letter to the Hebrews J. Ross Wagner

Part III: Ethics

9. Christianity’s Surprise: New Testament Foundations of the Human C. Kavin Rowe

10. The Moral Vision of LGBTQ Inclusion: Community, Cross, New Creation J. R. Daniel Kirk

11. Converting the Congregational Imagination Stephan K. Turnbull