Book contents
- Paul and Religion
- Cambridge Studies in Religion, Philosophy, and Society
- Paul and Religion
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Preface
- 1 What Does Paul Have to Do with Religion?
- 2 What Kind of Religious Interlocutor Is Paul?
- 3 What Is the Religious Form of Life for Paul?
- 4 What Does the Pauline Religious Form of Life Have to Do with Death?
- 5 What, for Paul, Is the Nature of the Religious Form of Community?
- 6 How, for Paul, Should Life ‘in Christ’ Be Lived?
- 7 What, for Paul, Are the Marks of Membership?
- 8 How, for Paul, Does a Religious Community Relate to Others?
- 9 Paul and Religion
- Select Bibliography
- Locorum Index
- Subject Index
2 - What Kind of Religious Interlocutor Is Paul?
Understandings and Misunderstandings
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 31 March 2022
Book contents
- Paul and Religion
- Cambridge Studies in Religion, Philosophy, and Society
- Paul and Religion
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Preface
- 1 What Does Paul Have to Do with Religion?
- 2 What Kind of Religious Interlocutor Is Paul?
- 3 What Is the Religious Form of Life for Paul?
- 4 What Does the Pauline Religious Form of Life Have to Do with Death?
- 5 What, for Paul, Is the Nature of the Religious Form of Community?
- 6 How, for Paul, Should Life ‘in Christ’ Be Lived?
- 7 What, for Paul, Are the Marks of Membership?
- 8 How, for Paul, Does a Religious Community Relate to Others?
- 9 Paul and Religion
- Select Bibliography
- Locorum Index
- Subject Index
Summary
When a reputation has suffered the accretions of twenty centuries, it is difficult to know how to chop off the distorting bits. The hope that one could get to the ‘real’ Paul underneath the layers must inevitably be abandoned. For one thing, the evidence available from his own hand is limited, and for another, he will always have to be located somehow in relation to our time and place. We understand him, not as his own spirit or God’s spirit understands him (as he notes in 1 Corinthians 2), but in response to the assumptions and concerns of our day.
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- Paul and ReligionUnfinished Conversations, pp. 18 - 43Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2022