Paul and the Creation of Christian Identity

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ISBN: 9780567033673 | 0567033678
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Copyright: 6/3/2008

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Paul is traditionally viewed as separating from early Jewish followers of Christ and from the church of Peter to promote his own mission, eventually triumphing in the creation of a church with a gentile identity. William S. Campbell argues that Paul's gentile mission was not a reaction to his Jewish heritage, but a transformation based on his vision of Christ: thus the identity of Christianity cannot be that of a new religion. Book jacket.

Preface	p. xi
Abbreviations	p. xiii
Introduction	p. 1
Jewish Identity in the First Century CE	p. 2
Ethnic Issues in the Pauline Letters	p. 6
Paul and the Politics of Difference	p. 9
The Approach of this Study	p. 10
Terminology	p. 12
Plan of the Book	p. 13
Pauline Interpretation and Christian Identity: Aspects of the History of Research	p. 15
F.C. Baur and His Legacy	p. 15
The Recovery of Paul in His Jewish Context	p. 17
Paul Among Jews and Gentiles	p. 21
Ernst Kasemann and the Righteousness of God in Paul	p. 23
Sanders' and Dunn's New Perspective	p. 26
Opposition to the New Perspective	p. 29
Conclusion	p. 31
Paul's Theologizing Concerning the Other	p. 33
Paul, the Recipient and Sole Interpreter of a Divine Revelation?	p. 33
Solidarity and Mutuality within the Communities	p. 35
Paul's Relationship with other Leaders and their Missions	p. 38
The Antioch Incident: The Catalyst of the Perception of Incompatibility Between Faith in Christ and Life as a Jew?	p. 42
A Non-Sectarian Reading of Paul	p. 46
Conclusion	p. 50
Paul's Peculiar Problem: The Creation of Gentile Identity in Christ	p. 54
Paul, the Innovator	p. 54
The Scriptures of Israel and the Formation of Gentile Identity in Christ	p. 57
Abraham, the Father of Us All, the Locus of Shared Identity in Christ	p. 61
In What Sense Were the Pauline Communities Distinct?	p. 64
The Tripartite Context: Paul's Mission Between State and Synagogue	p. 68
'Christians', Jews and Civic Authorities in Interaction	p. 69
Paul's Goal for His Communities in the Promotion of Solidarity in Christ	p. 72
Paul's Interaction with the Situation at Rome	p. 75
The Function of the Pauline Legacy in the Formation of 'Christian' Identity in Antioch	p. 79
The Significance of the Tripartite Context for the Formation of 'Christian' Identity	p. 83
Conclusion	p. 84
I Laid the Foundation: Paul the Architect of Christian Identity?	p. 86
Paul's Own Self-Understanding and Identity	p. 87
The Relativization of All Things in Christ	p. 89
Ethnicity and Paul's Construction of Identity in Christ	p. 93
Paul's Foundational Design: Potential Models	p. 96
Conclusion	p. 101
Paul's Attitude Towards Jewish Identity in Romans	p. 104
The Identity of Paul's Addressees in Romans	p. 104
The Identity of the Jew in Romans 2	p. 107
Judaism and Jewish Identity in Romans: Negative Aspects	p. 109
Judaizers in Romans?	p. 111
Judaism and Jewish Identity in Romans: Positive Aspects	p. 113
The Affirmation of Jewish Identity in Romans 14-15	p. 114
Conclusion	p. 119
Self-Understanding and the People of God: Israel in Romans	p. 121
Jews, Gentiles and Israel: The Implications of Paul's Terminology	p. 121
The Remnant in Paul: A Saving Remnant and a Sign of Hope	p. 127
The Church is not Israel (or New Israel)	p. 129
Paul's Eschatology is Based on Confirmation of the Promises, not Fulfilment	p. 133
God's Covenant is Irrevocable: The Identity of Israel is not Transferable	p. 134
Christ-Defined Identity	p. 140
Christ-Defined Identity and Continuity with the Narrative of Israel	p. 140
Christ-Followers as New Creation	p. 141
Divergent Interpretations of Divine Action in History	p. 143
Individualism and Faith in Christ	p. 147
Continuity and Discontinuity in Personal Identity in Christ	p. 149
A Christ-Defined Identity and Antagonism to Judaism	p. 151
Corporate Identity in Christ	p. 153
The Identity of Jesus as Messiah of Israel	p. 155
Multiple Identities in Christ?	p. 156
Conclusion: Paul's Theology as a Theology of Transformation	p. 159
Theology or Theologizing?	p. 159
The Catalyst: Social Factors in the Concrete Context of Paul's Communities	p. 161
The Basis: Belonging to Christ	p. 163
The Process: the Interaction Between Relativization and Transformation	p. 165
Transformation in Paul: an Ongoing Process	p. 171
Epilogue	p. 174
Bibliography	p. 176
Index of References	p. 197
Index of Authors	p. 201
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