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Apostle Paul : his life and theology / Udo Schnelle ; translated by M. Eugene Boring.

By: Contributor(s): Language: English Original language: German Publication details: Grand Rapids, MI : Baker Academic, c2005.Description: 695 p. ; 24 cmISBN:
  • 0801027969 (cloth)
Uniform titles:
  • Paulus. English
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 225.9/2 22
LOC classification:
  • BS2506.3 .S3613 2005
Contents:
Part one: The course of Paul's life and the development of his thought -- Prologue: Paul as challenge and provocation -- Approaching Paul --Reflections on historiography -- Methodological "handle": meaning formation in continuity and change -- Sources and chronology for Paul's life and work: definite and hypothetical -- Absolute chronology -- Relative chronology -- The pre-Christian Paul: open-minded religious zealot -- Background and social status -- Paul: Pharisee in the diaspora -- The religious and cultural background of Paul's thought -- The persecutor of the earliest churches -- The call to be Apostle to the gentiles: the new horizon -- The reports about the Damascus event -- Significance of the Damascus event -- The Christian Paul: a volcano begins to rumble -- Rehearsal and coaching: Paul and early Christian tradition -- Paul's Bible -- First steps as a missionary -- Paul as missionary of the Antioch Church -- The Apostolic Council and the incident at Antioch: the problems remain unresolved -- The Apostolic Council -- The Antioch incident -- Paul's independent mission: the volcano erupts -- Presuppositions of the pauline mission -- Beginnings of the independent mission -- The Pauline school and the structure of Paul's work with the churches -- The self-understanding of the Apostle to the gentiles -- The development of early Christianity as an independent movement -- Paul and the Thessalonians: consolation and confidence -- Prehistory and initial preaching -- The theology of 1 Thessalonians -- The ethic of 1 Thessalonians -- First Thessalonians as a document of early pauline theology -- First Corinthians: high and true wisdom -- Conflict in Corinth -- The wisdom of the world and the foolishness of the cross -- The power of the spirit and the purity of the community -- Freedom and obligation in Christ -- The power of the spirit and building up the church -- The resurrection of the dead -- The cross, justification, and the law -- Second Corinthians: peace and war -- The events between 1 and 2 Corinthians -- The unity of 2 Corinthians -- Paul's life as Apostolic existence -- The glory of the new covenant -- The message of reconciliation -- The fool's speech -- Paul and the Galatians: discovery in conflict -- Prehistory -- The Galatian crisis -- The Doctrine of the law and of justification in Galatians -- The ethic of Galatians: freedom active in love -- Inclusive and Exclusive Doctrine of Justification in Paul -- Paul and the church in Rome: high-level encounter -- The history and structure of the Roman Church -- The Letter to the Romans as a contextualized document -- The Gospel of Jesus Christ -- Knowledge of God among Jews and gentiles -- The righteousness of God -- Paul and the Old Testament -- The presence of salvation: baptism and righteousness -- Sin, law, and freedom in the spirit -- Paul and Israel -- The shape of the new life -- Paul in Rome: the old man and his work -- Prehistory: Paul en route to Rome -- Philippians -- The Letter to Philemon -- Paul the martyr -- Part two: the basic structures of pauline thought -- The presence of salvation as the center of pauline theology -- Theology: the God who acts -- The one God who creates and concludes -- God as the father of Jesus Christ -- God as the one who elects, calls, and rejects -- The Gospel as God's eschatological good news of salvation -- The newness and attractiveness of the pauline talk of God -- Christology: the Lord who is present -- Transformation and participation as the basic modes of pauline christology -- Jesus Christ as crucified and risen -- Jesus Christ as savior and liberator -- Jesus as messiah, lord, and son -- The substitutionary death of Jesus Christ "for us" -- The death of Jesus Christ as atoning event -- Jesus Christ as reconciler -- Jesus Christ as God's righteousness/justice -- God, Jesus of Nazareth, and early christology -- Soteriology: the transfer has begun -- New being as participation in Christ -- The new time between the times -- Pneumatology: the spirit moves and works -- The spirit as the connectional principle of pauline thought -- The gifts and present acts of the spirit -- Father, Son, and Holy Spirit -- Anthropology: the struggle for the self -- Human being and corporeality -- Sin and death -- The law -- Faith as the new qualification of the self -- Centers of the human self -- The new freedom -- Ethic: the new being as meaning formation -- Life within the sphere of Christ: correspondence as basic ethical category -- The new being in practice -- Ecclesiology: the church as a demanding and attracting fellowship -- Primary vocabulary and foundational metaphors of pauline ecclesiology -- Structures and tasks in the church -- The church as the realm of freedom from sin -- Eschatology: expectation and memory -- The future in the present -- The course of the final events and life after death -- The destiny of Israel -- Eschatology as time construal .
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 605-640) and indexes.

Part one: The course of Paul's life and the development of his thought -- Prologue: Paul as challenge and provocation -- Approaching Paul --Reflections on historiography -- Methodological "handle": meaning formation in continuity and change -- Sources and chronology for Paul's life and work: definite and hypothetical -- Absolute chronology -- Relative chronology -- The pre-Christian Paul: open-minded religious zealot -- Background and social status -- Paul: Pharisee in the diaspora -- The religious and cultural background of Paul's thought -- The persecutor of the earliest churches -- The call to be Apostle to the gentiles: the new horizon -- The reports about the Damascus event -- Significance of the Damascus event -- The Christian Paul: a volcano begins to rumble -- Rehearsal and coaching: Paul and early Christian tradition -- Paul's Bible -- First steps as a missionary -- Paul as missionary of the Antioch Church -- The Apostolic Council and the incident at Antioch: the problems remain unresolved -- The Apostolic Council -- The Antioch incident -- Paul's independent mission: the volcano erupts -- Presuppositions of the pauline mission -- Beginnings of the independent mission -- The Pauline school and the structure of Paul's work with the churches -- The self-understanding of the Apostle to the gentiles -- The development of early Christianity as an independent movement -- Paul and the Thessalonians: consolation and confidence -- Prehistory and initial preaching -- The theology of 1 Thessalonians -- The ethic of 1 Thessalonians -- First Thessalonians as a document of early pauline theology -- First Corinthians: high and true wisdom -- Conflict in Corinth -- The wisdom of the world and the foolishness of the cross -- The power of the spirit and the purity of the community -- Freedom and obligation in Christ -- The power of the spirit and building up the church -- The resurrection of the dead -- The cross, justification, and the law -- Second Corinthians: peace and war -- The events between 1 and 2 Corinthians -- The unity of 2 Corinthians -- Paul's life as Apostolic existence -- The glory of the new covenant -- The message of reconciliation -- The fool's speech -- Paul and the Galatians: discovery in conflict -- Prehistory -- The Galatian crisis -- The Doctrine of the law and of justification in Galatians -- The ethic of Galatians: freedom active in love -- Inclusive and Exclusive Doctrine of Justification in Paul -- Paul and the church in Rome: high-level encounter -- The history and structure of the Roman Church -- The Letter to the Romans as a contextualized document -- The Gospel of Jesus Christ -- Knowledge of God among Jews and gentiles -- The righteousness of God -- Paul and the Old Testament -- The presence of salvation: baptism and righteousness -- Sin, law, and freedom in the spirit -- Paul and Israel -- The shape of the new life -- Paul in Rome: the old man and his work -- Prehistory: Paul en route to Rome -- Philippians -- The Letter to Philemon -- Paul the martyr -- Part two: the basic structures of pauline thought -- The presence of salvation as the center of pauline theology -- Theology: the God who acts -- The one God who creates and concludes -- God as the father of Jesus Christ -- God as the one who elects, calls, and rejects -- The Gospel as God's eschatological good news of salvation -- The newness and attractiveness of the pauline talk of God -- Christology: the Lord who is present -- Transformation and participation as the basic modes of pauline christology -- Jesus Christ as crucified and risen -- Jesus Christ as savior and liberator -- Jesus as messiah, lord, and son -- The substitutionary death of Jesus Christ "for us" -- The death of Jesus Christ as atoning event -- Jesus Christ as reconciler -- Jesus Christ as God's righteousness/justice -- God, Jesus of Nazareth, and early christology -- Soteriology: the transfer has begun -- New being as participation in Christ -- The new time between the times -- Pneumatology: the spirit moves and works -- The spirit as the connectional principle of pauline thought -- The gifts and present acts of the spirit -- Father, Son, and Holy Spirit -- Anthropology: the struggle for the self -- Human being and corporeality -- Sin and death -- The law -- Faith as the new qualification of the self -- Centers of the human self -- The new freedom -- Ethic: the new being as meaning formation -- Life within the sphere of Christ: correspondence as basic ethical category -- The new being in practice -- Ecclesiology: the church as a demanding and attracting fellowship -- Primary vocabulary and foundational metaphors of pauline ecclesiology -- Structures and tasks in the church -- The church as the realm of freedom from sin -- Eschatology: expectation and memory -- The future in the present -- The course of the final events and life after death -- The destiny of Israel -- Eschatology as time construal .