God and the Faithfulness of Paul

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A Critical Examination of the Pauline Theology of N.T. Wright

Christoph Heilig J. Thomas Hewitt Michael F. Bird(Herausgeber*in)

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Table of Contents
Part I: Prologue
Michael F. Bird, Christoph Heilig, and J. Thomas Hewitt: Introduction
Bibliography
Benjamin Schliesser: Paul and the Faithfulness of God among Pauline Theologies
1. Rudolf Bultmann and N. T. Wright
1.1 Paul as a Thinker of "Believing Existence"
1.2 Bultmann's "Non-Narratival" Paul
1.3 Bultmann's "Non-Transformational" Paul
1.4 Bultmann's "De-Judaized" Paul
2. Form, Style and Design
2.1 Material Basis: Paul's Authentic Letters
2.2 Method: How to Write a Theology of Paul
2.3 Design: Mapping the Landscape of Paul's Thought
2.4 Style and Audience: Paul for Everyone?
3. James Dunn and N. T. Wright
3.1 Paul as a Jewish-"Nazarene" Theologizer
3.2 Two "New Perspectives" on Paul
3.3 The Grand Narrative - an "Idée fixe"?
3.4 "Christological Monotheism"
4. Thomas Schreiner and N. T. Wright
4.1 Paul as a Preacher of God's Saving Righteousness
4.2 Justification and Transformation
4.3 Human Plight and Divine Solution
5. Michael Wolter and N. T. Wright
5.1 Paul as an Inventor of Christian Identity
5.2 Christ-Faith and Christ's Faith
5.3 Justification - An "Ecclesiological Doctrine"
6. Udo Schnelle and N. T. Wright
6.1 Paul as a Versatile Cross-Cultural Hermeneut
6.2 The Systematic Quality of Paul's Thought
6.3 The Pragmatics of the Doctrine of Justification
6.4 Empire and Philosophy
7. Conclusion
Bibliography
Part II: Methodological Issues
Oda Wischmeyer: N. T. Wright's Biblical Hermeneutics. Considered from A German Exegetical Perspctive
1. Hermeneutical Approach: The German Tradition and its Impact on the Topic in Question
2. Wright's Implicit Hermeneutics
2.1 First, Wright always starts from the texts
2.2 Second, Wright works with the methodological tools of Clifford Geertz in order to demonstrate the connection between Paul's worldview and theology
2.3 Third, Wright's own person is always in play
2.4 Fourth, Wright does not solely write in an exegetical technical language, but he argues and narrates
3. Interpreting Paul's Texts
3.1 First, Wright starts from a unity or a center of gravity in the theology of Paul
3.2 Second, Wright understands Paul as a Jewish thinker, who newly defines the Jewish tradition
3.3 Third, Wright speaks throughout of the theology of Paul
4. Wright and Biblical Hermeneutics
5. Hermeneutical Prospectus
Bibliography
Andreas Losch: Wright's Version of Critical Realism
1. Barbour's Critical Realism
2. Lonergan's Critical Realism
3. Wright's Understanding of Critical Realism
4. . And the Reference to Meyer?
5. Critique
Bibliography
Theresa Heilig and Christoph Heilig: Historical Methodology
1. Introducing the Task
2. Introducing Abduction
2.1 Wright's Explicit Methodology
2.2 Deduction, Induction, and Abduction
2.3 The Comparative Nature of Abductive Inferences
3. Explanations: Does Wright "Explain" Paul?
4. From Discovery to Confirmation
4.1 Two Aspects in Peirce
4.2 Bayesian Confirmation
4.2.1 Abduction/IBE and Bayesian Confirmation
4.2.2 Wright and Bayesian Confirmation
5. Bayesian Considerations for Improving Wright's Arguments
5.1 Likelihoods
5.2 Prior-Probabilities
6. Conclusions
Bibliography
Eve-Marie Becker: Wright's Paul and the Paul of Acts. A Critique of Pauline Exegesis - Inspired by Lukan Studies
1. The "Bultmann for Our Age"?
2. Sources and Narrative Concepts: The Role of Acts in Pauline Studies
3. Between Critical Attestation and Redirection: Luke's Challenging Portrait of Paul
Bibliography
Steve Moyise: Wright's Understanding of Paul's Use of Scripture
1. Introduction
2. The Significance of Deuteronomy 30
3. Respect for Context
4. Paul and Israel's Scriptures
5. Conclusion
Bibliography
Joel R. White: N. T. Wright's Narrative Approach
1. The Narrative Substructure of Paul's Theology
1.1 Introduction
1.2 The Primacy of "Worldview"
1.3 A Jewish Metanarrative
1.4 A Complex Narrative in Paul
2. A critical assessment of Wright's Narrative Approach
2.1 Introduction
2.2 Methodological considerations
2.3 A Common Jewish Narrative?
2.4 Paul's narrative?
2.5 Exegetical and Theological Benefits
3. Conclusion
Bibliography
Part III: Contextual Issues
James Hamilton Charlesworth: Wright's Paradigm of Early Jewish Thought. Avoidance of Anachronisms?
1. Twelve Questions
1.1 I am certain that Wright would assiduously avoid any semblance of Anti-Judaism (Anti-Semitism), 3 but would he agree with the stellar group of Pauline specialists who convened in Rome in 2014 to demonstrate how Paul now must be understood within Second Temple Judaism?
1.2 Paul states that he is proud to be a Jew and a Pharisee, so does Wright err and cast Paul as a "Christian," a sociological and theological category which is anachronistic to many experts for the period before 70 CE?
1.3 Does Wright avoid such misleading dichotomies as "Hellenistic Judaism" versus "Palestinian Judaism" and "Orthodox Judaism" versus "Sectarian Judaism"?
1.4 In examining pre-70 CE sociological and theological contexts, does Wright choose to use terms that are now relegated to the dust bin, according to most leading scholars, such as "canonical," "canon," "extra-canonical," as well as "church," "orthodoxy," and "heresy"?
1.5 Does Wright appreciate how significantly the concepts and terms in the Dead Sea Scrolls have revolutionized scholars' approach to Second Temple Judaism, Christian Origins, and Paul? And specifically, how does he use the evidence of "works of the Law" now found in Second Temple Judaism to clarify the same term in Galatians?
1.6 If Wright sees a unity within Second Temple Judaism, what is it and how does he obtain that insight
and if he sees only diversity, how does he explain the colossal change in 66 CE?
1.7 Does Wright appreciate the many groups and sects within Second Temple Judaism and does he do justice to the Samaritans?
1.8 How does Wright treat the "sacred writings" in the Old Testament Pseudepigrapha (that is, does he find God's Word in any of them, as did the early Jews and "Christians"?)
and does he engage the authors who have claimed Paul quoted from or at least knew one or more of these documents?
1.9 Does Wright perceive that Paul's main inheritance from Judaism is apocalyptic eschatology?
1.10 Would Wright agree with those that conclude Paul broke from Jesus by rejecting the purity laws, dietary restrictions, circumcision, and taking the "good news" to Gentiles?
1.11 Has Wright found "the heart of Paul's theology" or has he allowed Paul to be as contradictory as he seems to be in his authentic letters?
1.12 Where do we find Paul's genius and creativity and how do we know thatwhen so many ideas we all once concluded had originated with Paul are nowbeing discovered in early Jewish texts?
2. Paul's Theology and the Complexities Within Second Temple Judaism
2.1 Missing
2.2 Questions Regarding any Construct of "Early Judaism"
2.2.1 Monotheism
2.2.2 Eschatology
2.2.3 Election and Universalism
2.3 The "Jew"
2.4 Covenant
2.5 Centralized Covenantal Judaism?
2.6 What Backdrop?
2.7 YHWH
2.8 Overview
2.9 What United Early Jews?
2.10 Summary
3. Conclusion
Bibliography
Gregory E. Sterling: Wisdom or Foolishness? The Role of Philosophy in the Thought of Paul
1. Introduction
2. Hellenistic Philosophy
2.1 Hellenistic Philosophy as a Field
2.2 Wright's Introduction to the Subfields of Hellenistic Philosophy
2.3 Wright's Overview of the Major Schools of Hellenistic Philosophy
2.4 Wright's Analysis of Jewish Responses to Pagan Philosophy
3. Paul's Response
3.1 Paul's Questions to the Philosophers
3.2 Paul and the Stoics in Recent Study
4. Conclusions
Bibliography
James Constantine Hanges: "A World of Shrines and Groves". N. T. Wright and Paul among the Gods
1. The Present Focus
2. Categories and Contextualization
2.1 Defining "Religion"
2.2 Importing Other Categories
3. "Religion" as a Hermeneutical Lens
3.1 Testing the Lens in Philadelphia
3.2 Testing the Lens in Corinth
4. Conclusion
Bibliography
Seyoon Kim: Paul and the Roman Empire
1. Paul Preached the Gospel of the Lord Jesus Christ in Antithesis to Its Roman Parody
2. John M. G. Barclay: "The Roman Empire Was Insignificant to Paul"
3. Wright Makes Paul a Twin of John of Revelation
3.1 The Roman Empire Was Unique to Paul
3.2 An Appeal to the Jewish Tradition
3.3 Paul's Modification of the Jewish Tradition
3.4 A Holy War against the Satanic Forces with the Weapons of Truth and Love
3.5 So Wright Turns Paul into the Likeness of John of Revelation
3.6 But Paul Is Different from John of Revelation
4. Wright's Interpretation of Some Epistles
4.1 1 Thessalonians 4-5
4.2 Philippians
4.3 1 Corinthians
4.4 Romans
5. The Rule of the Messiah Jesus, Justification, and "a United and Holy/Righteous Community"
6. Conclusion
Bibliography
Part IV: Exegetical Issues
Gregory Tatum: Law and Covenant in Paul and the Faithfulness of God
1. God's Promises to Abraham versus the Abrahamic and Mosaic Covenants
2. Torah and the Unity of the People of God
3. The Elephant in the Room: Forensic Justification and "Doing the Torah"
Bibliography
Sigurd Grindheim: Election and the Role of Israel
1. Election in Paul and the Faithfulness of God
2. Election in the Old Testament
3. Election Themes in the Letters of Paul
4. Evaluation
Bibliography
James D. G. Dunn: An Insider's Perspective on Wright's Version of the New Perspective on Paul
1. The New Perspective on Paul
2. The Absence of New Perspective Issues
3. The Center of Paul's Theology - Neither Old nor New Perspective
4. Paul in History
5. Conclusion
Bibliography
Peter Stuhlmacher: N. T. Wright's Understanding of Justification and Redemption
1. The Substructures of Wright's Reconstruction
2. The Sacrifice of Christ Jesus
3. Justification by Faith Because of Christ
4. Wright's Method and His Result
5. Summary
Bibliography
Aquila H. I. Lee: Messianism and Messiah in Paul. Christ as Jesus?
1. Introduction
2. A Brief History of Interpretation
3. The Philological Arguments
4. Incorporative Messiahship and Pre-Pauline Precedents
5. ??st?? ???st??: Indicative of Jesus's Messiahship?
6. The Place of Jesus's Messiahship in Paul
8. Conclusion
Bibliography
J. Thomas Hewitt and Matthew V. Novenson: Participationism and Messiah Christology in Paul
1. Wright on Stories and Messiahship
2. Wright on Election and "In Christ" Language
3. An Alternative Proposal: Pauline Messianism as Scriptural Discourse
4. Wright's Paul in Contemporary Pauline Studies
Bibliography
Larry W. Hurtado: YHWH's Return to Zion. A New Catalyst for Earliest High Christology?
1. Wright's Case
2. Jesus's Resurrection
3. Historical and Theological Issues
4. YHWH and Chief Agents
5. The NT Appropriation of the Return of YHWH
6. Conclusion
Bibliography
John R. (Jack) Levison: The Spirit in Its Second Temple Context. An Exegetical Analysis of the Pneumatology of N. T. Wright
1. The Centrality of Pneumatology for Paul
2. Pauline Pneumatology in Outline
3. Three Core Elements
3.1 The Temple
3.2 The Shekinah
3.3 The Messiah
3.4 The Integration of Second-Temple Jewish Traditions
4. Three Innovations
4.1 Spirit-driven Definition of Election
4.2 A Spirit-driven Definition of Obedience
4.3 A Radical, High, and Early Pneumatology
5. The Impact of the Spirit
5.1 The Generation of Faith
5.2 The Transformation of Believers
5.3 Resurrection
6. Missing Texts
6.1 Isaiah 63:7-14
6.2 Haggai 2:5
6.3 Dead Sea Scrolls
6.4 Summary
Bibliography
Torsten Jantsch: God and His Faithfulness in Paul. Aspects of the History of Research in Light of the Letter to the Romans
1. History of Research: Paul's God
2. God in Romans, or the Theocentricity of Paul's Argument
2.1 The "Theocentric Frame" of Romans
2.1.1 Theocentricity in the Praescript (1:1-7)
2.1.2 Theocentricity in the Proem (1:8-15)
2.1.3 The Theocentricity of the Thesis of Romans (1:16-17)
2.1.4 The Aim of the Gospel for the Gentiles (15:7-13)
2.2 God's Impartiality - a "Theological Axiom" in Romans 1:18-3:20
2.3 The Revelation of God's Righteousness and Justification through Faith: Romans 3:21-31
2.4 A Fresh Interpretation of Monotheistic Belief: Romans 3:29-30
2.5 God is Sovereign to Justify the Ungodly: Theology in Romans 4
2.6 God's Love as the Motive of His Acting: Romans 5:1-11 and 8:31-39
2.7 God's Faithfulness to His Promises: God in Romans 9-11
2.8 God and His Faithfuless in Romans
3. Conclusion: N. T. Wright and the Question of God in Recent Studies
Bibliography
Jörg Frey: Demythologizing Apocalyptic? On N. T. Wright's Paul, Apocalyptic Interpretation, and the Constraints of Construction
1. The Neutralization of Apocalyptic in PFG and the Critique of the Apocalyptic Reading of Paul
1.1 Presuppositions: Wright's Earlier Discussion of "Apocalyptic"
1.2 Four Strategies of Neutralizing Apocalyptic
1.2.1 The Symbolic Reading
1.2.2 The Socio-political Reference
1.2.3 The Presupposed "Covenantal" Worldview
1.2.4 Inaugurated Eschatology
2. The Apocalyptic Interpretation of Paul: Käsemann, Martyn, and de Boer and their concept(s) of apocalyptic
2.1 The Establishment of the Apocalyptic Interpretation of Paul
2.2 De Boer and Martyn and Their Concept(s) of Apocalyptic
3. The Roots, Variety, and Complexity of Apocalyptic in Recent Perspectives
3.1 New Insights in View of the Full Range of Texts
3.1.1 Enochic Beginnings
3.1.2 Spatial vs. Temporal Orientation
3.1.3 No General Reference to Torah and Temple
3.1.4 The Variety of Genres
3.1.5 No Coherent Group or Movement
3.1.6 The Social Backgrounds
3.1.7 The Intentions of Apocalyptic Thought
3.2 The Insufficiency of the Concepts of Apocalyptic in the Debate
4. Paul the Apocalyptic Theologian and Salvation History
4.1 Paul the Apocalyptic Theologian
4.2 Apocalyptic and Salvation History in Paul
5. Apocalyptic as a Stumbling Stone and the Constraints of Construction
Bibliography
Richard H. Bell: Individual Eschatology
1. Justification and Judgement according to Works
2. Human Post-mortem Existence
3. The Soul and Ontological Dualism
4. Participation
5. Conclusion
Bibliography
Volker Rabens: The Faithfulfness of God and Its Effects on Faithful Living. A Critical Analysis of Tom Wright's Faithfulness to Paul's Ethics
1. What Wright Thinks is Wrong
2. From Wrong to (W)Right: How Change is Possible
2.1 Divine and Human Agency
2.2 Cognitive Behavior Modification
2.3 Relational Transformation
3. Paul's Ethical Aims and Aspirations
4. Faithfulness: God, Human Beings, and Tom Wright
Bibliography
Part V: Implications
Andrew McGowan: Ecclesiology as Ethnology. The Church in N. T. Wright's Paul and the Faithfulness of God
1. Introduction
1.1 The Library
1.2 Defining Ekklesia: Church and Symbol
1.3 Constructing Ekklesia: Church, Canon, and Context
2. Identity
2.1 The Body of the Messiah
2.2 Israel and the Ekklesia
3. Purpose
3.1 Reworking the People of God
3.2 Bible, Judaism, and Paul
3.3 Ecclesiology as Soteriology?
3.4 Israel's Failure?
4. Character
4.1 Religion
4.2 Sacrifice
5. Conclusions
5.1 Ekklesia and Ecclesiology
5.2 Out of the Labyrinth
Bibliography
James G. Crossley and Katie Edwards: Paul and the Faithfulness of God as Postmodern Scholarship
1. The Postmodern Scholar, Multiculturalism, and the Construction of "Jewishness"
2. New Perspectives on "Jewishness"
3. The Dictatorship of God?
4. Concluding Remarks
Bibliography
Frank D. Macchia: The Spirit and God's Return to Indwell a People. A Systematic Theologian's Response to N. T. Wright's Reading of Paul's Pneumatology
1. Introduction: Rediscovering the Importance of the Spirit
2. Breathing Room for the Spirit: Beyond Anthropocentrism
3. The Spirit as Integral to an Early High Christology
4. Substance, Person, and Mediation
5. The Spirit and the Gifted People of God
6. The People of God: The Spirit and the Law
7. Justification in the Spirit: Covenantal or Salvific?
8. The Significance of Galatians 3:21 for Justification in the Spirit
9. Conclusion
Bibliography
Sven Ensminger: Barth, Wright, and Theology
1. Introductory Comments
2. Engaging Barth and Wright
2.1 Revelation
2.2 Religion
2.3 Christology
3. Some Conclusions
Bibliography
Edith M. Humphrey: Bishop Wright: Sacramentality and the Role of Sacraments
1. Approach: Reconciliation, Questions, and the Load-bearing Symbol
2. Theology: Creator, the Desacralized Creation, the Once-for-all Sacrifice, and ???????a
3. The Hegemony of History, Metaphorical Eschatology, and the Time It Is
Bibliography
Eckhard J. Schnabel: Evangelism and the Mission of the Church
1. Paul's Missionary Work
1.1 Paul's Missionary Preaching upon Arrival in a New City
1.2 Geographical Strategies
1.3 Establishing Local Congregations
1.4 The Missions of Paul and Peter
2. Conversion
3. Explicating the Gospel
4. Defining Evangelism
Bibliography
Part VI: Epilogue
N. T. Wright: The Challenge of Dialogue. A Partial and Preliminary Response
1. Introduction
2. The Holy Spirit
3. Justification, Participation, and Transformation
4. Paul and the Story of Israel
5. The Purpose of Election?
6. Extended Exile
7. The Return of YHWH to Zion?
8. "Apocalyptic"
9. Paul and the Philosophers
10. Economics and Mission
11. A Sacramental Universe and a Transformed Humanity?
12. Jesus is Lord
Bibliography
Indices
Indices Index of Ancient Sources
1. Old Testament
2. Deuterocanonical Books
3. Old Testament Pseudepigrapha
4. Dead Sea Scrolls
5. Ancient Jewish Writers
4. New Testament
5. Rabbinic Works
6. Apostolic Fathers, New Testament Apocrypha, and New Testament Pseudepigrapha
7. Later Christian Writings
8. Greco-Roman Literature
9. Non-Literary Sources
Index of References to Paul and the Faithfulness of God
Preface
Part I
Part II
Part III
Part IV
Index of Names
Index of Subjects

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