Full Description
Paul Today discusses and challenges popular interpretations of familiar Pauline texts in view of important controversies and debates. Who was Paul? What do we know about his relationship to Jesus? What was the role of the city of Ephesus? Can Paul's attitudes towards marriage and slavery be redeemed? And what of Paul's attitude to women and their ministry, and to homosexuality? Do we appropriately attribute to Paul ideas about justification and faith? Or is there more to know than meets the eye? Throughout, Need debates and reframes familiar interpretations of Paul through challenge and critique informed by both scholarship and pastoral experience. These essays make constructive, critical approaches to Paul available to a wider circle of interested readers.
Contents
Chapter 1 Introduction
Chapter 2 A Portrait of Paul — Painting a Picture of the Apostle to the Gentiles
Chapter 3 Paul and Jesus — A New Testament Conundrum
Chapter 4 Paul and Ephesus — Texts, History, and Archaeology
Chapter 5 Contextualizing Paul — Marriage and Slavery in 1 Corinthians
Chapter 6 Discerning the Body — Food, Conscience, and the Eucharist in 1 Corinthians
Chapter 7 Paul and Women — Setting the Record Straight
Chapter 8 Paul and Homosexuality — What's the Problem?
Chapter 9 A Revolution in Pauline Studies — Considering the "New Look" on Paul
Chapter 10 Paul and Christ — Christology, Ethics, and Ecclesiology
Chapter 11 The Fall and Original Sin — The Real Meaning of Romans 5:12-21
Chapter 12 Justification by Faith? — Paul's Theology of Righteousness
Chapter 13 Epilogue
Chapter 14 Bibliography
