Approaches to Paul

Approaches to Paul
Author: Magnus Zetterholm
Publisher: Fortress Press
Total Pages: 290
Release: 2009
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 1451413394

What distinguishes the "new perspective on Paul" - and what lies beyond it? What are scholars saying about Paul and the Roman Empire or about the intersection between feminist and postcolonial interpretation of Paul? Magnus Zetterholm provides a clear and reliable guide to these and other lively issues in the contemporary study of Paul, surveying the history of the principal perspectives on Paul's relation to Judaism and the Jewish law and showing the relationships between answers given to those questions and the assumptions scholars bring to other issues as well. This is an indispensable handbook for the beginning student of the apostle and his thought.

Paul & the Law

Paul & the Law
Author: Frank Thielman
Publisher: InterVarsity Press
Total Pages: 340
Release: 2009-09-20
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 9780830876471

No issue in contemporary Pauline studies is more contested than Paul's view of the law. Headline proponents of the "new perspective" on Paul, such as E.P. Sanders and J.D.G. Dunn, have maintained that the Reformational readings of Paul have led to distorted understandings of first-century Judaism, of Paul and particularly of Paul's diagnosis of the Jewish situation under the law. Others have responded by arguing that while our understanding of Paul needs to be tuned to the clearer sounds now emanating from Jewish texts of the apostle's day, the basic Reformational insight into Paul's analysis of the human plight remains true to the apostle. Paul was opposing works righteousness. Paul & The Law is a careful attempt to assault this crucial interpretive problem with a new strategy. Rather than taking a systematic, topical approach, Frank Thielman examines Paul's view of the law in context: the context of each letter's language and argument. While many studies have focused on Paul's explicit statements about the law, Thielman goes further in investigating those contexts where Paul's language is allusive and his view implied. The result is an illuminating and significant contribution to Pauline studies. Paul & the Law clarifies our understanding of Paul's perspective on the law in the light of his gospel of Jesus Christ, and it reaffirms the coherence and integrity of Pauline theology as it relates to this pivotal axis of his thought.

Paul the Missionary

Paul the Missionary
Author: Eckhard J. Schnabel
Publisher: InterVarsity Press
Total Pages: 519
Release: 2010-01-28
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 0830879005

Drawing on his monumental scholarly study Early Christian Mission (Volume 2), Eckhard J. Schnabel's gives us an overview of Paul's missionary practices, strategies and methods, and then weighs contemporary evangelical missiology and practice in light of Paul.

Paul

Paul
Author: N. T. Wright
Publisher: Fortress Press
Total Pages: 210
Release: 2008-10-28
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 0800663578

Ranks the Apostle Paul as "one of the most powerful and seminal minds of the first or any century," and argues that we can now sketch with confidence a new and more nuanced picture of Paul and the radical way in which his encounter with Jesus redefined his life, his mission and his expectations for a world made new in Christ. Reprint.

Missionary Methods: St. Paul's or Ours?

Missionary Methods: St. Paul's or Ours?
Author: Roland Allen
Publisher: Gideon House Books
Total Pages: 164
Release: 2016-10-12
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 1943133387

At this critical point in the history of World Missions, it is imperative for us to take a step back from “business as usual” in our work around the globe and reevaluate the strategies and methods we are implementing. What is working? What isn’t? If we’re honest, there may be more not working than we would care to admit. In this book, written in the early 1900s, Roland Allen invites us to look at the missionary work of the Apostle Paul with fresh eyes and an igniting perspective that is strikingly relevant to the greatest challenges we are facing today in modern missions. He offers a well of insight from the methodology of Paul that will focus and unite us as we draw nearer than ever before to our goal of fulfilling the Great Commission and reaching the world with the Gospel of Jesus Christ.

Jesus Have I Loved, But Paul?

Jesus Have I Loved, But Paul?
Author: J. R. Daniel Kirk
Publisher: Baker Academic
Total Pages: 224
Release: 2012
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 080103910X

Provides a fresh engagement of the debated relationship between Paul's writings and the portrait of Jesus contained in the Gospels.

Who Created Christianity?

Who Created Christianity?
Author: Craig Evans
Publisher: Hendrickson Publishers
Total Pages: 489
Release: 2020-01-01
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 1683072707

Who Created Christianity? is a collection of essays by top international Christian scholars who desire to reinforce the relationship that Paul had with Jesus and Christianity. There is a general sense today among Christians in certain circles that Paul's teachings to the early Christian church are thought to be "rogue," even clashing at times with Jesus' words. Yet these essays set out to prove that the tradition that Paul passes on is one received from Jesus, not separate from it. The essays in this volume come from a diverse and international group of scholars. They offer up-to-date studies of the teachings of Paul and how the specific teachings directly relate to the earlier teachings of Jesus. This volume explores with even greater focus than ever before the tradition from which Paul emerges and the specific teachings that are part of this tradition. This collection of essays proposes a complementary work to the work of David Wenham and his thesis that Paul was indeed not the founder of Christianity or the creator of Christian dogma; instead he was a faithful disciple and a conveyer of a prior Christian tradition. Includes essays by well-known Christian scholars such as Craig Blomberg, Alister McGrath, N. T. Wright, Michael Bird, Greg Beale, and more: Paul and Jesus: Issues of Continuity and Discontinuity in Their Discussion by Stanley E. PorterHow and Why Paul Invented "Christian Theology" by N. T. WrightThe Origins of Paul's Gospel by Graham H. TwelftreeWhen Paul Met Jesus: How an Idea Continues to Be Lost in History Past and Present by Stanley E. PorterPaul and the Jesus Tradition: An Old Question and Some New Answers by Rainer RiesnerContinuity and Development in the Ministries of Jesus and of Paul by Christoph W. StenschkePaul's Significant Other in the "We-Passages" by Joan E. TaylorWhose Gospel Is It Anyway? The Glory of Christ in the Prophetic Ministry of Paul according to His "My Gospel" and "Our Gospel" by Aaron W. WhiteDavid Wenham, "The Little Apocalypse," Paul--and Silas by Bruce ChiltonThe Parallels between 1 and 2 Thessalonians against the Background of Ancient Parallel Letters and Speeches by Armin D. BaumMetanoia Jesus, Paul, and the Transformation of the Believing Mind by Alister McGrathYou Would Not Believe If You Were Told: Eschatological Unbelief in Early Christian Apologetics by Peter TurnillPaul on Food and Jesus on What Really Defiles: Is There a Connection? by Craig A. EvansGospel Women Remembered by Sarah HarrisWomen in the Pauline Epistles: Lessons from the Jesus Tradition by Erin HeimTwelve Theses on Matthew and Paul: The Jewish Gospel and the Apostle to the Gentiles by Michael F. BirdPaul and the Paternoster: Some Mainly Matthew Observations about a Pauline Prayer by Nathan RidlehooverThe Rediscovery of David Wenham's Rediscovery: Reflections on a Pre-Markan Eschatological Discourse Thirty-Six Years on by Craig BlombergPortraits of Jesus and Paul through the Lukan Lens by Steve Walton"Every Sin That a Person Commits Is Outside the Body" (1 Corinthians 6:18b): Paul's Likely Dependence on the Jesus Tradition by John NollandJesus Is Lord: The Rhetorical Appropriation of the Teaching of Jesus in 1 Corinthians 5 by Peter DavidsThe Temple and Anti-Temple at Colossae by Greg BealeFilling up What Is Lacking in Christ's Afflictions: Isaiah's Servant and Servants in Second Temple Judaism and Colossians 1:24 by Holly Beers

Understanding Paul's Ethics

Understanding Paul's Ethics
Author: Brian S. Rosner
Publisher: Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing
Total Pages: 396
Release: 1995
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 9780802807496

This introduction to the study of Paul's ethics collects fourteen essays by notable scholars which, with commentary to the editor, illumine the origin, context, social dimension, shape, logic, foundations, and relevance of Paul's ethics.

Paul's New Perspective

Paul's New Perspective
Author: Garwood P. Anderson
Publisher: InterVarsity Press
Total Pages: 460
Release: 2016-09-29
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 0830873155

The debate between the Old and New perspectives on Paul has reached a stalemate. But what if Paul's own theological perspective developed over time? Starting with the teaser that "both 'camps' are right, but not all the time," Garwood Anderson unfolds a new proposal for overcoming the deadlock, infusing new energy into the quest for understanding Paul's mind and letters.

Studying Paul's Letters

Studying Paul's Letters
Author: Joseph A. Marchal
Publisher: Fortress Press
Total Pages: 261
Release: 2012-04
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 1451411731

Joseph A. Marchal leads a group of scholars who are also experienced teachers in courses on Paul. More than a series of "how-to" essays in interpretation, each chapter in this volume shows how differences in starting point and interpretive decisions shape different ways of understanding Paul. Each teacher-scholar focuses on what a particular method brings to interpretation and applies that method to a text in Paul's letters, aiming not just at the beginning student but at the "tough choices" every teacher must make in balancing information with critical reflection.