Neil Godfrey has a post in which he writes that \u201cFor Paul there is one central focus of his faith and that is Christ crucified\u201d and emphasizes that this negates the need for an elaborate and detailed mythological system. Of course, those who accept mainstream scholarship will know that something similar has been said for a very long time in relation to Paul as most scholars understand him. On the one hand, the crucifixion of the person believed to be the Davidic Anointed One cried out for explanation. On the other hand, the belief that he had been raised from the dead (and not merely returned to mortal life) meant that the end of the ages had arrived. Is it any wonder that Paul\u2019s theology focused most of its attention on those moments and only rarely turned its focus elsewhere? <\/a><\/p>\nGodfrey\u2019s post emphasizes the present experiential nature of Paul\u2019s religion, and that too helps account for Paul\u2019s focus being on what it is, and not on other things \u2013 whether details of a celestial myth, or details of an earthly life.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Here are a few posts relevant to mythicism from around the blogosphere. From Tom Verenna, two posts on \u201cDefining Mythicism,\u201d one of which addresses the appeal to Galatians 1 as though Paul\u2019s words there give a clear indication one way or the other about Jesus\u2019 historicity, while the other post emphasizes that an all-or-nothing approach […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":136,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[64,71],"tags":[652,720,2322,7306,7853,7999,8815,10276,12715],"class_list":["post-2539","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mythicism","category-paul-and-his-letters","tag-anointed-one","tag-apostle","tag-crucifixion","tag-messiah","tag-mythicism","tag-neil-godfrey","tag-paul","tag-resurrection","tag-tom-verenna"],"yoast_head":"\n
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