Paul and Philosophy
Selected Essays
By (author) Troels Engberg-Pedersen
Hardback (Published)
(November 2023)
ISBN: 9783161618895
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In sixteen essays, Troels Engberg-Pedersen analyses a variety of Pauline texts and themes philosophically. A substantial introduction follows the inner thread connecting all the themes in the new notion of the “Christ circle”. Also explored are Paul’s fundamental “apocalypticism” and his Jewishness.
This volume collects sixteen essays published by Troels Engberg-Pedersen between 1994 and 2023 in which he analyses Pauline texts and themes philosophically, often using ancient philosophy (particularly Stoicism) as a comparison to invigorate traditional theological exegesis of Paul. Published in chronological order, the essays are preceded by a substantial introduction tracing their analytical development. This leads to a final account of Paul’s message, bringing all the issues together in a single strand. Among the central themes tackled are the relationship between ‘theology’ and ‘ethics’, the logical form of Pauline ‘moral exhortation’, the understanding of ‘flesh’ and ‘spirit’, the logic of action, personhood and Paul’s soteriology. Along the way, Paul’s ‘apocalypticism’ and his relationship with Judaism gain in importance, with the analysis reaching its goal in an explication of the notion of the ‘Christ circle’.
Introduction: Speaking Within the Christ Circle
Chapter 1: Stoicism in Philippians
Chapter 2: Galatians in Romans 5-8 and Paul's Construction of the Identity of Christ Believers
Chapter 3: Paul Beyond the Judaism/Hellenism Divide
Chapter 4: The Reception of Graeco-Roman Culture in the New Testament: The Case of Romans 7.7-25
Chapter 5: Radical Altruism in Philippians 2.4
Chapter 6: The Relationship with Others: Similarities and Differences Between Paul and Stoicism
Chapter 7: Complete and Incomplete Transformation in Paul - a Philosophical Reading of Paul on Body and Spirit
Chapter 8: Gift-Giving and Friendship: Seneca and Paul in Romans 1-8 on the Logic of God's Χάρις and Its Human Response
Chapter 9: The Logic of Action in Paul: How Does He Differ from the Moral Philosophers on Spiritual and Moral Progression and Regression?
Chapter 10: A Stoic Concept of the Person in Paul? From Galatians 5.17 to Romans 7.14-25
Chapter 11: Paul and Universalism
Chapter 12: The Sinful Body: Paul on Marriage and Sex
Chapter 13: On Comparison: The Stoic Theory of Value in Paul's Theology and Ethics in Philippians
Chapter 14: Paul in Philippians and Seneca in Epistle 93 on Life after Death and its Present Implications
Chapter 15: Pauline Epistemology: Νοῦς and πνεῦμα in Stoicism and Paul
Chapter 16: Justice, Love and the Gift: The Logic of Pauline Soteriology
1983 first dissertation; 2000 second dissertation; 2000−16 Professor of New Testament, University of Copenhagen; professor emeritus.
- By (author) Troels Engberg-Pedersen
Other Titles in this Series
Paulus und Johannes
Exegetische Studien zur paulinischen und johanneischen Theologie und Literatur
Volume 198
Metapher – Narratio – Mimesis – Doxologie
Begründungsformen frühchristlicher und antiker Ethik. Kontexte und Normen neutestamentlicher Ethik / Contexts and Norms of New Testament Ethics. Band VII
Volume 356
Mosebilder
Gedanken zur Rezeption einer literarischen Figur im Fruhjudentum, fruhen Christentum und der romisch-hellenistischen Literatur
Volume 390
Gleichnisse und Parabeln in der fruhchristlichen Literatur
Methodische Konzepte, religionshistorische Kontexte, theologische Deutungen
Volume 456
“Ready for Every Good Work” (Titus 3:1)
Implicit Ethics in the Letter to Titus. Kontexte und Normen neutestamentlicher Ethik/Contexts and Norms of New Testament Ethics. Vol. XIII
Volume 484
Jenseits von Indikativ und Imperativ
Kontexte und Normen neutestamentlicher Ethik / Contexts and Norms of New Testament Ethics. . Band I
Volume 238
Le Jour de Dieu – Der Tag Gottes
5. Symposium Strasbourg, Tubingen, Uppsala. 11.-13. September 2006 in Uppsala
Volume 245
Paul and the Imperial Authorities at Thessalonica and Rome
A Study in the Conflict of Ideology
Volume 273
Doing Gender – Doing Religion
Fallstudien zur Intersektionalitat im fruhen Judentum, Christentum und Islam
Volume 302
Reading the First Century
On Reading Josephus and Studying Jewish History of the First Century
Volume 300
Semitisms in Luke’s Greek
A Descriptive Analysis of Lexical and Syntactical Domains of Semitic Language Influence in Luke's Gospel
Volume 401
Epochs and Styles
Selected Writings on the New Testament, Greek Language and Greek Culture in the Post-Classical Era
Volume 179
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