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2 - What Kind of Religious Interlocutor Is Paul?

Understandings and Misunderstandings

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  31 March 2022

Paul W. Gooch
Affiliation:
University of Toronto
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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 Religion
Unfinished Conversations
, pp. 18 - 43
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2022

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