Paul Among Jews and Gentiles and Other Essays
Overview
A sharp challenge to traditional ways of understanding Paul is sounded in this book by a distinguished interpreter of the New Testament. Krister Stendahl proposes—in the key title essay—new ways of exploring Paul’s speech: Paul must be heard as one who speaks of his call rather than conversion, of justification rather than forgiveness, or weakness rather than sin, of love rather than integrity, and in unique rather than universal language.
The title essay is complemented by the landmark paper, “Paul and the Introspective Conscience of the West,” and by two seminal explorations of Pauline issues: “Judgment and Mercy” and “Glossolalia—The New Testament Evidence.” The book concludes with Stendahl’s pointed reply to the eminent scholar Ernst Kasemann who has taken issue with the author’s revolutionary interpretations. This volume provides convincingly new ways for viewing Paul, the most formative of Christian teachers.
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Top Highlights
“The Reformers’ interpretation of Paul rests on an analogism when Pauline statements about Faith and Works, Law and Gospel, Jews and Gentiles are read in the framework of late medieval piety.” (Pages 85–86)
“The introspective conscience is a Western development and a Western plague. Once the introspective conscience came into the theological bloodstream of Western culture, it tended to dominate the scene far beyond its original function. It reached its theological climax and explosion in the Reformation, and its secular climax and explosion in Sigmund Freud. But Paul himself was never involved in this pursuit.” (Page 17)
“The only metanoia (repentance/conversion) and the only grace which counts is the one now available in Messiah Jesus.” (Page 81)
“Rom. 3:9ff.), yet also equally capable of being saved through” (Page 29)
“Noteworthy is the fact that wherever such passages concerning justification by faith occur in Paul’s letters they most probably are to be found in the same verse as or at least adjacent to a specific reference to Jews and Gentiles.” (Page 26)
An especially important book . . . for all who are interested in the alleged biblical roots of Christian anti-Semitism.
—Worldview
- Title: Paul among Jews and Gentiles and Other Essays
- Author: Krister Stendahl
- Publisher: Fortress Press
- Print Publication Date: 1976
- Logos Release Date: 2013
- Pages: 128
- Language: English
- Resources: 1
- Format: Digital › Logos Research Edition
- Subjects: Paul, the Apostle, Saint; Bible. N.T. Epistles of Paul › Theology; Apostles › Biography
- Resource ID: LLS:PLJWSGNTLSTHRSS
- Resource Type: Monograph
- Metadata Last Updated: 2022-02-12T05:06:16Z
