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Published in: Eve-Marie Becker and Kenneth Mtata (eds.), Pauline Hermeneutics – Exploring the "Power of the Gospel". LWF-Studes 3. Evangelische Verlagsanstalt Leipzig/Lutheran World Federation, 127-142
The Pauline Letters and (Homo)Sexuality: Examining Hermeneutical Arguments Used in the Estonian Discussion
2017 •
Urmas Nommik
Paul, Jerusalem and the Judaisers: The Galatian crisis in its broader historical context
2007 •
Ian Elmer
The thrust of this thesis is encapsulated in the title - Paul, Jerusalem and the Judaisers: The Galatian Crisis in Its Broader Historical Context - which reflects the author's insistence that reconstructing all the events surrounding the crisis that impelled Paul to compose his letter to the Galatians is essential to understanding this letter. The position taken in this study is that the Galatian crisis was initiated by a group of Judaising opponents acting under the direct authority of the Jerusalem church. The origins of this controversy can be traced back to the early dispute between the Hellenists and the Hebrews described in the Acts of the Apostles, which led to the expulsion of the Hellenists from Jerusalem and the establishment of the community in Antioch. Paul's opponents apparently cited Jerusalem as the source of and the warrant for their Law-observant gospel. In Galatians, Paul alludes to events involving Judaising opponents that transpired in Jerusalem and Antio...
Paul's Earliest Statement Concerning the Christian Church: a Review and Evaluation of Research Into Paul's Association of the Term [ekklesia] to [en Christo] in 1 Thessalonians
1995 •
Roberto Pereyra
PAUL'S EARLIEST STATEMENT CONCERNING THE CHRISTIAN CHURCH: A REVIEW AND EVALUATION OF RESEARCH INTO PAUL'S ASSOCIATION OF THE TERM EKKA.t|oia TO BV XplOTU IN 1 THESSALONIANS
Co-edited volume (EVA: 2017): "Pauline Hermeneutics: Exploring the 'Power of the Gospel'".
Eve-Marie Becker
Paul’s letters are of crucial importance for Christian theology and church life. The way in which the apostle Paul critically reflected on the meaning of the gospel message in light of Scripture, the traditions, ethics and Christian faith and hope, has had a significant and lasting impact on the Lutheran tradition. In this publication, the fourth and final in a series of LWF publications on biblical hermeneutics, renowned international scholars from the fields of biblical studies and systematic theology reevaluate to what extent twenty-first-century Lutherans can rediscover the Pauline paradigm of the »power of the Gospel« and hereby overcome ambiguous perceptions of the so-called »Lutheran reading(s)« of Paul.
Paul's Earliest Statement Concerning the Christian Church: a Review and Evaluation of Research Into Paul's Association of the Term ἐκκλησία to ἐν Χριστῷ in 1 Thessalonians
2023 •
Roberto Pereyra
Paul, Jerusalem and the Judaisers
Ian J Elmer
STJ | Stellenbosch Theological Journal
Prophecy and the prophetic as aspects of Paul’s theology
Albert Hogeterp
As the earliest documents of Christianity, Paul’s Letters include extensive evidence on prophecy and the prophetic, most particularly in 1 Corinthians 12–14. In view of the influential hypothesis on “the cessation of prophecy” in Ancient Judaism on the one hand and early Jewish and Christian versatility on prophecy on the other, this essay addresses the question what prophecy meant in Paul’s days and how it may be situated as a spiritual gift in Paul’s theology. It reconsiders the cessation hypothesis vis-à-vis Early Judaism, providing caveats on its application to the Dead Sea Scrolls and Flavius Josephus, thereby redressing the Second Temple Jewish context of Christian origins in this respect. The essay provides a contextual reading of key passages (1 Cor 12:4–11, 13:8–13, 14:1–5, 14:20–33a), offering new insights about communal parameters of prophecy by comparing Paul’s ideas with contexts of Judaism, Jewish Hellenism and the Corinthians’ Greek environment.
“Paul’s Mission Strategy in the Urban Landscape of the First-Century Roman Empire,” in: Steve Walton / Paul Trebilco / David Gill (eds.), The Urban World and the First Christians (Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 2017), 99–122
Volker Rabens
(From the introduction by the editors:) Volker Rabens considers how Paul approached his mission, to make Christ known, in the urban settings of the first-century Roman Empire, analyzing how Paul chose the cities he visited and how he acted once he arrived in a city. Rabens argues that Paul was no mere pragmatist, but that his highly flexible practice and missiological principles were closely interlocked. - Includes discussion of scholars such as Tom Wright, Rodney Stark, Thomas Robinson, Robert Sack, Ksenija Magda, Rainer Riesner -
[James D. G. Dunn] The Theology of Paul the Apostl(BookZZ.org) (1)
Jeremiah Tuvilla
Christian Churches in Post-communist Slovakia: Current Challenges and Opportunities (edited by Michal Valčo and Daniel Slivka; Salem: Center for Religion and Society, Roanoke College, 2012), 361-414. ISBN 978-0-615-66671-6.
Righteousness, Justice and Holiness within Koinonia: The Theological Perspective of Development of the Jewish-Christian Dialogue in Slovakia
František Ábel
