Irenaeus and Paul (Pauline and Patristic Scholars in Debate)
Overview
Building on the work of Tertullian and Paul and The Apostolic Fathers and Paul, this volume continues a series of specially commissioned studies by leading voices in New Testament/early Christianity and patristics studies to consider how Paul was read, interpreted and received by the early Church Fathers.
In this volume the use of Paul’s writings is examined within the writings of Irenaeus of Lyon. Issues of influence, reception, theology and history are examined to show how Paul’s work influenced the developing theology of the early Church. The literary style of Paul’s output is also examined. The contributors to the volume represent leading lights in the study of Irenaeus, as well as respected names from the field of New Testament studies.
- Explores issues of influence, reception, theology, and history
- Examines how Paul’s work influenced the developing theology of the early Church
- Surveys recent scholarship on Irenaeus
- Irenaeus and Paul: An Introduction - David E. Wilhite
- Irenaeus and Opponents on Creator, Creation and the Apostle – Michael A. Williams
- Response: Paul, Ireaneus, and the Creation in Dialogue with Michael A. Williams - Jason Maston
- The Use of Paul in Irenaeus’s Christology - Stephen O. Presley
- Response: Messiah Christology in Paul and Irenaeus - Joshua W. Jipp
- The Personal/Substantial Spirit of Prophecy: Irenaeus’s Use of Paul Against the Heresies - David E. Wilhite
- Response: Irenaeus’s Use of Paul on the Spirit: A Response to David E. Wilhite - Craig Keener
- On Sin: Irenaeus’s Appropriation of Paul - Thomas J. Holsinger-Friesen
- Response: On Sin in Irenaeus's Appropriation of Paul: A Response to Tom Hosinger-Friesen - Jutta Leonhardt
- The Covenant of Promise: Abraham in Irenaeus - Benjamin Blackwell
- Response: Irenaeus, Abraham, Covenants and the One Thing Needful: The Second Adam - Mark W. Elliot
- Teaching the Rule of Faith in Love: Irenaeus on 1 Corinthians 8:1 - Scott D. Moringiello
- Response: Being Known by God: A Response to Scott D. Moringiello - Carla Works
- Irenaeus and Paul: Sexuality, Virginity, and Women - Helen Rhee
- Response: Irenaeus’s Reception of Pauline Teaching on Sexuality, Virginity, and Women: A Response to Helen Rhee - Judith Gundry
- Paul and the Jerusalem Church in Irenaeus’s Against Heresies - Benjamin White
- Response: Irenaeus, Jerusalem, and Remembering the Poor: A Response to Benjamin White - Bruce W. Longenecker
- Paul in Irenaeus on the Last Things - A. Y. Collins
- Response: Appropriating Paul: Irenaeus’s Use of the Apostle in Forming and Expressing His Eschatological Thought - Todd D. Still
These stimulating conversations between scholars at home in Irenaeus’s thought and those from a Pauline stable make a valuable contribution to an understanding of both thinkers. But more than this, they take us beyond a linear view of Pauline reception, and binary models of whether Irenaeus got Paul ‘right’ or ‘wrong’, to a more measured reflection on the contextualization of all interpretation, and of the potential of Paul—and of Irenaeus—for new readings in the face of new challenges.
—Judith Lieu, University of Cambridge, UK
- Title: Irenaeus and Paul
- Authors: Todd Still, David E. Wilhite
- Series: Pauline and Patristic Scholars in Debate
- Publisher: T&T Clark
- Print Publication Date: 2020
- Logos Release Date: 2020
- Pages: 318
- Era: era:contemporary
- Language: English
- Resources: 1
- Format: Digital › Logos Research Edition
- Subjects: Bible. N.T. Epistles of Paul › Theology; Religion › Philosophy
- ISBNs: 9780567672872, 9780567672889, 9780567693303, 9780567702326, 0567672875, 0567672883, 0567693309, 0567702324
- Resource ID: LLS:IRENAEUSANDPAUL
- Resource Type: Monograph
- Metadata Last Updated: 2022-09-30T00:46:45Z
Todd D. Still (Ph.D.University of Glasgow) is Associate Professor of Christian Scriptures at the George W. Truett Theological Seminary of Baylor University in Waco, Texas. Among other publications, he is the author of Conflict at Thessalonica: A Pauline Church and Its Neighbours and the editor of Jesus and Paul Reconnected: Fresh Pathways into an Old Debate.
David Wilhite is a historical theologian (patristics) at George W. Truett Theological Seminary at Baylor University, Waco, TX. He is the author of Tertullian the African: An Anthropological Reading of Tertullian’s Context and Identities (Walter de Gruyter, 2007).