Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Foreword
- Acknowledgements
- Abbreviations
- Jesus in early Christian interpretation
- Studies in the Gospels
- Two studies in the Epistles
- Two linguistic studies
- Studies exegetical, doctrinal and ethical
- 12 The influence of circumstances on the use of christological terms
- 13 The influence of circumstances on the use of eschatological terms
- 14 St Paul and ‘dualism’: the Pauline conception of resurrection
- 15 A reconsideration of the context of maranatha
- 16 II Cor. iii.18b, καθάπερ ἀπὸ κυρίου πνεύματος
- 17 Punishment and retribution: an attempt to delimit their scope in New Testament thought
- 18 The theology of forgiveness
- 19 Obligation in the ethic of Paul
- 20 ‘…As we forgive…’: a note on the distinction between deserts and capacity in the understanding of forgiveness
- 21 The sacrifice of the People of God
- Index
14 - St Paul and ‘dualism’: the Pauline conception of resurrection
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 November 2011
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Foreword
- Acknowledgements
- Abbreviations
- Jesus in early Christian interpretation
- Studies in the Gospels
- Two studies in the Epistles
- Two linguistic studies
- Studies exegetical, doctrinal and ethical
- 12 The influence of circumstances on the use of christological terms
- 13 The influence of circumstances on the use of eschatological terms
- 14 St Paul and ‘dualism’: the Pauline conception of resurrection
- 15 A reconsideration of the context of maranatha
- 16 II Cor. iii.18b, καθάπερ ἀπὸ κυρίου πνεύματος
- 17 Punishment and retribution: an attempt to delimit their scope in New Testament thought
- 18 The theology of forgiveness
- 19 Obligation in the ethic of Paul
- 20 ‘…As we forgive…’: a note on the distinction between deserts and capacity in the understanding of forgiveness
- 21 The sacrifice of the People of God
- Index
Summary
Everybody knows that the relation between Paul's beliefs and expectations about life beyond death and those of his contemporaries is obscure and hotly disputed. Everybody knows, too, about the debate over the origins of gnosticism and the extent to which Paul shared its dualism; and I am not so simple as to imagine that I can provide clarity and precision where great scholars, past and present, have confessed to bewilderment. In discussing Paul's attitude to the material world, all that I shall attempt is, after defining certain areas of the problem, to defend Paul's basic consistency on certain particular issues; and, in this connexion, to suggest an interpretation of certain parts of II Cor. v which,1 as I believe, throws light on his degree of consistency.
Before I outline my thesis about Paul's basic consistency, then, I must briefly attempt to define certain areas within dualism. W. Schmithals holds that Paul inherited and accepted the sort of dualism that had already deeply penetrated Judaism, but he adds that this was, of course, not a primal, metaphysical dualism. No Jew, he points out – not even a gnostic Jew – entertained a primal, metaphysical dualism: at the beginnings of things, God stands alone.
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- Essays in New Testament Interpretation , pp. 200 - 221Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 1982