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The
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Paul & the
Whole in His Theology Paul Study |
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Chapter 1 A Necessary Introduction to Paul Critical Underlying Problem to Address Related Issues in Hermeneutical Impasse, Flow and Outcomes A Necessary Approach to Paul Doing Theology
The Basis for Certain Assumptions
SECTION I THE JOURNEY OF PAUL'S PERSON
Chapter 2 Paul's Journey Begins and Emerges The Journey Begins The Journey Emerges Whom Paul Encountered The Nature of the Interaction Paul's Response to the Embodied Word
Chapter 3 Development in Paul's Journey Paul's Antecedents and Sources Knowing Christ and 'in Christ' Paul's Transition to Apostle (for the Whole of Humanity) Paul's Thought Paul's Gospel
Chapter 4 Paul's Journey Matures The Whole of Paul and His Witness
The Whole in Paul and His Theology
SECTION II PAUL and THEOLOGY
Chapter 5 The Theological Paul The Subject of Theology The Purpose of Theology Interpreting Paul's Theology
Chapter 6 Paul's Theological Systemic Framework Cosmology and God Anthropology and God The Roots The Heart The Function Theology of Wholeness
Chapter 7 Paul's Theological Forest - Part 1 Theological Forest Defined Sine Qua Non for the Forest The Forest Enacted The Forest Embodied Paul's Pleroma Christology Pleroma Christology Completed
Chapter 8 Paul's Theological Forest - Part 2 Pleroma Soteriology Pleroma Soteriology Completed Theology of Belonging Theology of Ontological Identity
Chapter 9 Paul's Theological Forest - Part 3 Pleroma Pneumatology Participating in God's Life Ecclesiology of the Whole Pauline Development The Roots of Ekklesia Paul's Pleroma Ecclesiology Its Functional Basis Its Ontology and Function of the Church Its Functional Significance Its Functional Imperatives and Implications
Chapter 10 The Church Alive in Wholeness The Church on the Offensive Leadership in the New Creation The Church in Love The Church in the New Relational Order The Church as Equalizer from the Inner Out
The Church in its Own Difference
SECTION III FURTHER THEOLOGICAL AND TEXTUAL NOTES
Chapter 11 Supplemental Theological Notes
Eleven Interrelated Questions in Paul's Theology
1. How important is continuity and discontinuity in Paul? 2. Is reductionism a straw man in Paul's polemic which becomes reified as his discourse unfolds? 3. How much of Paul's claim to have received direct revelation from God can be factored in to make definitive the whole in his theology, the development of which goes both further than Judaism and even deeper than the Jesus tradition? 4. How important was methodology to Paul's theology? 5. What was the nature of Paul's faith-response to God's revelation and how did it differ from OT faith? Was Paul's view of faith (including for justification) any different than James' view? 6. How did Paul see works and what did he mean by doing good, good works? 7. As a Jew and a Christian, what was Paul's understanding of God's people? 8. As a Jew and a Christian and an adopted son, to what extent did change need to take effect 'already' for his theology to be functional? 9. Since the influence of reduced human ontology and function limits this relational outcome, what was Paul's position on religio-cultural and sociocultural practices which may appear to be problematic, or not? 10. Given Paul's emphasis on the relational outcome 'already' of God's relational response to the human condition, how is Paul's discourse on slaves congruent with this relational outcome, and his directives for them compatible with its function in transformed relationships together? 11. Equally important, if not more, how are Paul's new creation view of women and his prescriptions for them in agreement, and how are his directives compatible for the relational outcome of God's new creation family?
A twelfth question for all of Paul's readers
Chapter 12 Additional Textual Notes
Scripture Index (Primary Source)
Bibliography (Secondary Source)
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