Euangelion
My good friend Joe Mock brought to my attention an article by Edwin Christian van Driel on Gospeling: Paul, Protestant Theologians, and Pittsburgh Theological Seminary. I liked van Driel’s book Incarnation Anyway as an argument for supralapsarianism. In this essay, his professorial lecture at PTS, he provides an argument for integrating academic learning and Christian faith. He sets forth his vision of a seminary as a place where “the church sets aside and fosters an academic community; an academic community invited to a common life;a common life shaped by theological reflection, which in turn draws us deeper in knowing, loving, and worshipping God.” In the course of his lecture he compares Calvin and Wright on the gospel. He states:
My thesis that, when it comes to the conversation between traditional Protestant and contemporary Pauline exegesis, the issues at stake do not primarily have to do with what Paul exactly meant by terms such as “justification”or “righteousness” or “works vs. faith”; rather, the central problem is that the partners in this conversation assume different narrative substructures in Paul—that is, they assume in Paul’s writings different theologically informed stories about God’s relating to us in Christ. It is because they work with these differently conceived narrative substructures that they take him to mean different things when he talks about justification,” “righteousness,” or “faith.”
A nice read on on many things including theological education, gospel, and NPP readings of Paul.
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