Paul

September 2019

September 25, 2019
 Michael Gorman, in his new and wonderful book, Participating in Christ: Explorations in Paul's Theology and...

February 2018

February 12, 2018
Douglas Campbell, famous for a monster volume on Paul's theology (The Deliverance of God) and...

March 2017

March 28, 2017
When our children were teenagers they would sometimes say someone was "annoying." When we probed...

August 2016

August 25, 2016
So says James Thompson in The Church according to Paul: Rediscovering the Community Conformed to Christ....

May 2016

May 09, 2016
In his essay on the "Three Paths to Salvation of Paul the Jews," in Paul...

February 2016

February 24, 2016
There is a debate among Paul scholars about whether or not Paul was a convert,...

January 2016

January 22, 2016
The apostle Paul was an immigrant, at least if we go with the earliest Christian...

December 2015

December 28, 2015
In 1977 E.P. Sanders wrote Paul and Palestinian Judaism and unleashed what, in the expression originally...

November 2015

November 24, 2015
The apostle Paul has been mined mostly for his theology -- from Augustine to Luther...
November 16, 2015
The major debate about the apostle Paul shifted in the 21st Century from a debate...
November 12, 2015
It may simplify but this formula may explain a major difference between at least the...
November 09, 2015
Last Friday I posted a summary by N.T. Wright of E.P. Sanders' view of Judaism...
November 06, 2015
In the mid to late 90s I began to hear traditional, mostly the Reformed with...

October 2015

October 28, 2015
The cover of N.T. Wright's new Paul and His Recent Interpreters, in the English edition (sadly...

July 2015

July 29, 2015
I don't care how good it is, for many (if not most) pastors I know,...

June 2015

June 11, 2015
In a previous post I observed that Paul's letters were not read by individuals but...

April 2015

April 06, 2015
I am hard at work on the apostle Paul these days, writing an extensive commentary...
April 03, 2015
In a previous post I grabbed Douglas Campbell's detailed, analytical outline of what he calls...

March 2015

March 26, 2015
Douglas A. Campbell, The Quest for Paul’s Gospel: A Suggested Strategy (2005), 160-162. The first...

December 2014

December 11, 2014
Since 1977 there has been a regular conversation among those who study the New Testament,...

April 2014

April 03, 2014
What we often want Paul to be saying in Philemon, namely set the man free...
April 02, 2014
Those famous words of Paul's in Romans 13 have not only irritated some to the...

March 2014

March 31, 2014
There are not a few proposals of what the apostle Paul was all about. From...
March 24, 2014
So what were Paul's aims? What was he doing? What did he think he was...
March 18, 2014
Among those who study the apostle Paul there is a subterranean turbulent storm that many...
March 03, 2014
The standard reading of the apostle Paul's life is the story of conversion, and at...

February 2014

February 24, 2014
What did Paul say to folks on the Areopagus? What would Paul have said to...
February 18, 2014
So many today love to contrast Jesus (and therefore themselves) with "religion" and "religion" is...
February 11, 2014
This is a repost on NT Wright, Paul and the Faithfulness of God, but I...
February 10, 2014
The operative words here are status and honor, chased behind by the words power and...
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