A Man in Christ

, by Stewart, James S.

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This classic study disentagles the Apostle Paul?

Paul or Pau inism?

Paul and Paulinism: a distinction

(2)

Paul's religion not to be systematized

(14)

The subject-matter of his teaching

(1)

The nature of the situation addressed

(3)

Paul's view of his vocation

(2)

Paul's Gospel and so-called ``plans of salvation''

(2)

Mistaken efforts to isolate the elements of Christian experience

(1)

Paul seen through the eyes of later generations

(1)

Two notes of warning

(3)

Necessity of spiritual kinship with the apostle

(1)

Two reactions from scholastic interpretations

(16)

Proposal to eliminate everything Pauline from the Gospel

(3)

Was Paul a theologian?

(1)

The reflective element in his nature

(3)

Experience primary, reflection secondary

(1)

Romans not a ``compendium of doctrine''

(1)

Absence of precise definition in Paul's terminology

(1)

No ``systems'' of eschatology or ethics

(1)

Paul's inner consistency

(2)

``This one thing I do''

(2)

Heritage and Environment

The double strain in Christianity, and in Paul

(1)

Paul's pride in his Jewish birth

(15)

The New Testament picture of Pharisaism

(1)

The pupil of Gamaliel

(2)

The Old Testament in Paul's curriculum

(1)

Monotheism and righteousness

(2)

The allegorical interpretation of Scripture

(2)

Paul's Old Testament quotations

(2)

Root-conceptions of apocalyptic literature

(2)

Paul bound to no apocalyptic scheme

(1)

The dispersion of the Jews

(8)

How Diaspora Judaism maintained its identity

(1)

The missionary spirit of the Jew abroad

(2)

Hellenistic reactions on Judaism

(2)

Itinerant Stoic preachers

(8)

Resemblances of style, language, and idea between Paul and the Stoics

(3)

No doctrine of grace in Stoicism

(1)

Further differences

(2)

Stoicism a religion of despair

(1)

The ``religious-historical school'' and the mystery religions

(19)

Refusal of the early Church to compromise with paganism

(1)

Relation of this refusal to the great persecutions

(1)

The originality of Christianity

(1)

General aim of the mysteries

(1)

The cults of Cybele and Isis

(2)

Paul's contacts with the cults

(1)

Was Paul versed in Hellenistic literature?

(1)

The Old Testament, not the mysteries, Paul's source

(2)

Paul a creative spirit

(1)

Paul's Gospel distinguished from Hellenism by its ethical insistence

(1)

And by its emphasis on faith

(4)

Disillusionment and Discovery

The glory of the conversion experience

(1)

The background of frustration and defeat

(1)

Disappointment and unhappiness

(16)

The legalist spirit in modern religion

(1)

A religion of redemption by human effort

(1)

The mercenary spirit in religion

(1)

A religion of negatives

(1)

Is Paul's picture of Jewish legalism correct?

(2)

The soul-destroying burden of tradition

(2)

Four attitudes to the law

(4)

The bitterness of Paul's personal problem

(2)

The power of the flesh

(1)

Does Romans 7 refer to the pre-conversion period?

(9)

Is it autobiographical?

101

(1)

Paul's sharing of his inmost experience

102

(1)

The meaning of ``flesh''

103

(1)

Paul's view of sin as personal

104

(2)

The origin of sin

106

(1)

The seriousness of sin

106

(1)

The misery of the divided self

107

(1)

The element of nobility in the law

108

(11)

The law powerless to save

110

(2)

The law revealing sin

112

(1)

The law instigating to sin

112

(1)

The law a temporary expedient

113

(2)

The law a schoolmaster to lead to Christ

115

(1)

The law destined to pass away

116

(3)

Paul's ``goads.'' Recognition of the failure of Judaism

119

(13)

The fact of the historic Jesus

120

(1)

The lives of the Christians

121

(1)

The death of Stephen

121

(1)

The conversion an act of supernatural grace

122

(2)

The Vision and the Voice

124

(3)

Is Paul's experience normative for other Christians?

127

(5)

Decisive results of the Damascus experience

132

(16)

Discovery of Jesus as alive

133

(1)

The resurrection God's vindication of His Son

134

(1)

Death and resurrection not to be isolated

135

(3)

Paul's attitude to the cross revolutionized

138

(2)

The man's self-surrender to the love of God

140

(1)

The vision of a waiting world

141

(1)

Paul and Isaiah

142

(1)

The spiritual basis of the doctrine of election

143

(2)

The endless amazement of redemption

145

(2)

Mysticism and Morality

Union with Christ the heart of Paul's religion

147

(1)

The importance of this conception too long ignored

148

(12)

Growing recognition to-day of its centrality

150

(2)

Safeguarding the doctrine of atonement

152

(2)

Examination of Paul's watchword ``in Christ''

154

(2)

The cognate phrase ``in the Spirit''

156

(2)

The mystical idea not to be thinned down

158

(2)

Widespread dislike of mysticism

160

(13)

Varieties of mystical experience

161

(1)

Every true Christian in some degree a mystic

162

(1)

``Acting'' and ``reacting'' mysticism

163

(1)

``Mystical'' and ``moral'' union

164

(1)

The analogy of human love

165

(1)

Union with Christ not pantheistic absorption

166

(2)

Christianity more than the example of Jesus

168

(2)

Union with Christ and union with God

170

(3)

``Grace'' and ``Faith''

173

(13)

The Old Testament doctrine of faith

174

(2)

The teaching of Jesus on faith

176

(1)

Varieties of Pauline usage

177

(1)

Conviction of the unseen

178

(1)

Confidence in the promises of God

178

(1)

Conviction of the facts of the Gospel

179

(2)

Faith as synonymous with Christianity

181

(1)

Faith as self-abandonment to God in Christ

182

(2)

The germ of this in the Synoptic Gospels

184

(1)

``Believing in Christ'' and ``loving Christ''

185

(1)

Union with Christ in His death

186

(19)

The trumpet-note of Romans 6

187

(4)

Union with Christ in His burial

191

(1)

Union with Christ in His resurrection

192

(1)

The life of Christ in the believer

193

(1)

Union with Christ the sheet-anchor of Paul's ethics

194

(1)

The charge of antinomianism

194

(2)

Identification with Christ's attitude to sin

196

(1)

A moral motive and a moral dynamic

197

(1)

The good fight of faith

198

(1)

The eschatological aspect of Paul's Christ-mysticism

199

(1)

Paul and John on ``eternal life''

200

(4)

Reconciliation and Justification

Peace with God the supreme good

204

(1)

Man made for fellowship with God

205

(21)

This fellowship disturbed by sin

205

(1)

The experience of alienation

206

(3)

Who has to be reconciled---man or God?

209

(1)

Christianity here different from other religions

210

(2)

Paul's use of the term ``enemies''

212

(2)

His doctrine of ``propitiation''

214

(3)

His teaching on the ``wrath of God''

217

(4)

God the Reconciler, man the reconciled

221

(1)

The divine initiative

222

(2)

Reconciliation to life

224

(1)

Reconciliation to the brethren

225

(1)

Reconciliation and the cross

226

(17)

The death not to be isolated from the resurrection

226

(1)

The meaning of the cross not to be reduced to any formula

227

(1)

Primitive Christian teaching on the death of Christ

228

(1)

Man's most flagrant crime

228

(1)

The divine purpose at Calvary

229

(1)

The cross and the forgiveness of sins

230

(1)

Paul's advance beyond the primitive position

231

(1)

The cross as the supreme condemnation of sin

232

(1)

The judgment of God

233

(2)

The cross as the supreme revelation of love

235

(1)

The death of Christ as a ``sacrifice''

236

(2)

The cost to God of man's forgiveness

238

(2)

The cross as the gift of salvation

240

(2)

Christ our Substitute and our Representative

242

(1)

Paul's greatest paradox

243

(17)

Permanent validity of the idea of justification

244

(1)

The Old Testament conception of righteousness

245

(3)

Righteousness in Paul's epistles

248

(2)

The verdict of ``Not guilty''

250

(1)

Ideas of merit excluded

250

(2)

The teaching of Jesus on justification

252

(2)

Adoption and sonship of God

254

(1)

Justification not a ``legal fiction''

255

(2)

Organic connection between justification and sanctification

257

(3)

The eschatological element in Paul not to be exaggerated

260

(13)

But ``hope'' prominent throughout his writings

262

(1)

Relation to Synoptic eschatology

263

(1)

Paul's spiritual growth and its significance

263

(1)

The problem of the body

264

(1)

The fact of death

265

(1)

Present struggle and future victory

265

(1)

The resurrection of believers

266

(2)

The day of judgment

268

(2)

The return of the Lord

270

(3)

Historic Jesus and Exalted Christ

Paul immeasurably Christ's debtor

273

(1)

Paul's alleged transformation of the original Gospel

273

(13)

His claim to independence

276

(2)

Had Paul seen Jesus in the flesh?

278

(4)

Paul acquainted with the historic facts

282

(1)

The subject-matter of the apostolic preaching

282

(2)

Christ as a present reality

284

(1)

Christ as a historic Person

285

(1)

Paul's knowledge of the Jesus of history

286

(12)

References in the epistles to the life of Jesus

286

(1)

References to the character of Jesus

287

(1)

References to the teaching of Jesus

288

(1)

Direct citations and indirect reminiscences

288

(3)

Paul's fundamental positions a legacy from Jesus

291

(1)

Jesus' attitude to the law

291

(2)

Jesus' message of the Kingdom of God

293

(1)

Christology in the Gospels, in Acts, and in the epistles

294

(4)

A redeemed man's final estimate of his Redeemer

298

(23)

Jesus as Messiah

298

(3)

Jesus as Lord

301

(2)

Jesus as Son of God

303

(1)

The Son subordinate to the Father

304

(2)

Jesus on the divine side of reality

306

(1)

Relation of Christ and the Spirit

307

(1)

History of the doctrine of the Spirit

308

(1)

Christ and the Spirit inseparable, but not identical

309

(2)

Christ as the origin and goal of creation

311

(2)

Relevance of this to modern problems

313

(2)

The religious value of the idea of pre-existence

315

(2)

Alpha and Omega

317

(2)

The deathless optimism of the Christian faith

319

(2)

Index of Subjects

321

(4)

Index of Authors

325

(4)

Scripture Passages

329

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