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New Testament 3
Pauline Theology
Reading Paul Early church to 'Lutheran' Paul ● Clement (~95AD) – accepted Paul, early support for Paul ● Epiphanius – against Paul – Paul was a lover jilted by a priest's daughter and thus anti-Jew ● Marcion – high view of Paul – NT corpus was Luke and 10 Pauline epistles ● Augustine – projects self-understand and struggles on to Paul (Westerholm: Luther recovers Augustine's reading of Paul) ● Luther ○ Faith no good works is decisive in our relationship with God ○ Law shows our sinfulness, drives us to the Saviour ○ Justified by faith, not by works ○ simul justus, simul peccator (at once a sinner and at the same time justified) ○ Christians shouldn't think about the law in relationship to God, it is only helpful for identifying and judging sin. Modern times ● F.C. Baur and the Tubingen school ○ Big division between Paul and Jerusalem church ○ Paul: Gentile, universal, law free and Hellenistic st ○ This division became test of canonicity, hence 1 four epistles (Rom, 1 & 2 Cor, Gal) are the only legitimate epistles ● Liberal school ○ Wrede – Jesus got gospel right, Paul stuffed it up. Jesus as Christus Victor ○ Bultmann – gospel is the call to authentic human living - decision is crucial - Paul wrote applied theology in each epistle ● Jewish Paul ○ Apocalyptic (Albert Schweitzer) ■ Paul's disappointment that Kingdom of God hadn't arrive drove his 'in Christ' theology to be central and crucial ○ Diaspora or Hellenistic (Montefiore) ○ Pharasaic Judaism ■ Stendahl ● Augustine and Luther's issues weren't Paul's they were projecting on to him ● Salvation history is fundamental aspect of Pauline theology, JBF developed to include Gentiles ■ Sanders ● on Judaism 'obedience maintains one's position in the covenant, but it does not earn God's grace as such.' ● Paul's thinking moved from 'solution to plight' ● Paul's critique of Judaism is that it is not Christianity ■ Dunn ● Paul against 'Jewish intention to safeguard the privilege of covenant status being dissipated or contaminated by non-Jews' ● 'JBF was Paul's answer to the question: How is it that Gentiles can be equally 1
New Testament 3
Pauline Theology
acceptable to God?' 'works of the law' ≠ 'good works' Wright ● Israel was to redeem the world from Adam's sin ● JC is the new Israel and lives out the role she never did, death & resurrection ● Resurrection was a metaphor for return from exile ● Justificiation is sign of covenant membership ●
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Pauline Theology
Reading Paul Early church to 'Lutheran' Paul ● Clement (~95AD) – accepted Paul, early support for Paul ● Epiphanius – against Paul – Paul was a lover jilted by a priest's daughter and thus anti-Jew ● Marcion – high view of Paul – NT corpus was Luke and 10 Pauline epistles ● Augustine – projects self-understand and struggles on to Paul (Westerholm: Luther recovers Augustine's reading of Paul) ● Luther ○ Faith no good works is decisive in our relationship with God ○ Law shows our sinfulness, drives us to the Saviour ○ Justified by faith, not by works ○ simul justus, simul peccator (at once a sinner and at the same time justified) ○ Christians shouldn't think about the law in relationship to God, it is only helpful for identifying and judging sin. Modern times ● F.C. Baur and the Tubingen school ○ Big division between Paul and Jerusalem church ○ Paul: Gentile, universal, law free and Hellenistic st ○ This division became test of canonicity, hence 1 four epistles (Rom, 1 & 2 Cor, Gal) are the only legitimate epistles ● Liberal school ○ Wrede – Jesus got gospel right, Paul stuffed it up. Jesus as Christus Victor ○ Bultmann – gospel is the call to authentic human living - decision is crucial - Paul wrote applied theology in each epistle ● Jewish Paul ○ Apocalyptic (Albert Schweitzer) ■ Paul's disappointment that Kingdom of God hadn't arrive drove his 'in Christ' theology to be central and crucial ○ Diaspora or Hellenistic (Montefiore) ○ Pharasaic Judaism ■ Stendahl ● Augustine and Luther's issues weren't Paul's they were projecting on to him ● Salvation history is fundamental aspect of Pauline theology, JBF developed to include Gentiles ■ Sanders ● on Judaism 'obedience maintains one's position in the covenant, but it does not earn God's grace as such.' ● Paul's thinking moved from 'solution to plight' ● Paul's critique of Judaism is that it is not Christianity ■ Dunn ● Paul against 'Jewish intention to safeguard the privilege of covenant status being dissipated or contaminated by non-Jews' ● 'JBF was Paul's answer to the question: How is it that Gentiles can be equally 1
New Testament 3
Pauline Theology
acceptable to God?' 'works of the law' ≠ 'good works' Wright ● Israel was to redeem the world from Adam's sin ● JC is the new Israel and lives out the role she never did, death & resurrection ● Resurrection was a metaphor for return from exile ● Justificiation is sign of covenant membership ●
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