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• Preface
• Abbreviations
• Part I. Introduction
• 1. The conceptual approach
• Part II. What Requires Discernment? The Objects of Evaluation: 2. The discernment of ethical questions
• 3. The discernment of spirits
• 4. Discerning all things: the structure of Paul's epistemology
• Part III. How Can and Should True Discernment Take Place?: 5. The context and background of Paul
• 6. How does Paul believe true discernment can and should take place?
• Part IV. Conclusion: 7. Recapitualtion and implications for theology
• Bibliography
• Indices.
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• C. Paul's Epistemology: Contingent and Comprehensive1. Contingency; 2. Existential Appropriation of Truth; 3. Comprehensive Perception of Reality; 4. Summary; D. The Role of Discernment within Paul's Epistemology and Theology; 1. The Interpretative Role; 2. The Corrective Role; 3. Summary; E. The Пpfpoαxlm{{: Exempt from Judgement but not Discernment ; F. Conclusion: Discernment as Theology; Part III How Can and Should True Discernment Take Place; 5 The Context and Background of Paul ; A. Introduction; B. Judaism; 1. The Quest for Knowledge and Wisdom; 2. The Question of Discernment.

How did Paul determine ethical and theological truth? Were all believers expected to be able to 'discern the spirits' (1 Corinthians 12.10)? This 2007 study shows that discernment must be understood against the backdrop of an extensive hermeneutic, by which Paul inherently relates ethical and theological knowledge. Understanding the will of God requires noetic and existential transformation, in short, the 'renewal of the mind' (Romans 12.2). Munzinger argues that Paul implies a process of inspiration in which the Spirit sharpens the discerning functions of the mind because the believer is liberated from a value system dominated by status and performance. The love of God enables all believers to learn to interpret reality in a transformed manner and to develop creative solutions to questions facing their communities. For Paul authentic discernment is linked to a comprehensive sense of meaning.
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• Preface
• Part I. Velamen: 1 Corinthians 11: 1. Belonging together
• 2. Eros veiled
• Part II. Concupiscentia: Romans 7: 3. Sex: a critique
• 4. The tombs of desire
• Part III. Sacramentum: Ephesians 5: 5. Eros transfigured?
• 6. Engendering agape.
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Issues of gender and sexuality have recently come to the fore in all humanities disciplines, and this book reflects this broad interdisciplinary situation, although its own standpoint is broadly theological. In contrast to many contemporary feminist theologies, gender and sexuality (eros) are here understood within a distinctively Christian context characterized by the reality of agape - the New Testament's term for the comprehensive divine-human love that includes the relationship of man and woman within its scope. The central problem is concern with key Pauline texts relating to gender and sexuality (1 Cor. 11, Rom. 7, Eph. 5), texts whose influence on western theology and culture has been enduring and pervasive. They are read here in conjunction with later theological and non-theological texts that reflect that influence - ranging from Augustine and Barth to Virginia Woolf, Freud and Irigaray.
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Throughout the Christian era, Paul has stood at the centre of controversy, accused of being the father of Christian anti-Semitism. But have we misunderstood the man and his teachings for 2000 years? This study challenges this entrenched view of Paul, arguing persuasively that Paul's words have been taken out of their original context, distorted and generally misconstrued. The author takes us in search of the "real" Paul, using Paul's own writings. Through an exhaustive analysis of Paul's letters to the Galatians and the Romans, he provides illuminating answers to the key questions: Did Paul repudiate the Law of Moses? Did he believe that Jews had been rejected by God and replaced as the chosen people by Gentiles? Did he consider circumcision to be necessary for salvation? And did he expect Jews to find salvation through Jesus? To all these questions, John Gager answers no. First, he puts Paul's proselytizing in context. Paul was an apostle to the Gentiles, not the Jews.
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• Abbreviations
• Part I. Prolegomena: 1. Introduction, previous solutions, method and Pauline context
• Part II. The Graeco-Roman Belly: 2. The belly as a sign - ancient physiognomics
• 3. The belly in ancient moral philosophy
• 4. Ancient critique of Epicureanism
• 5. Banquets - opportunities for the belly
• Part III. The Appropriated Belly: 6. The belly-topos in Jewish-Hellenistic sources
• 7. The belly in Philo's writings
• Part IV. Belly-Worship and Body According to Paul: 8. The lifestyle of citizens of the heavenly Politeuma - Phil 3:17-21
• 9. 'Serving the belly' as kinship with Satan - Rom 16:17-20
• 10. The Corinthian belly
• Part V. The Earliest Expositors of Paul: 11. The belly-dicta of Paul in Patristic literature
• Part VI. Conclusions: 12. Concluding remarks
• Bibliography
• Indices.
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The belly is today a matter of much concern. Modern cultures, particularly in the West, have developed means to cultivate this part of the body: corsets, exercises, revealing fashions. In this compelling exploration of the 'belly' motif, Karl Olav Sandnes asks whether St Paul might be addressing a culture in which the stomach is similarly high on the agenda. The result is a surprising new insight into his writings. Paul twice mentions the enigmatic phrase 'belly-worship' (Phil 3; Rom 16). The proper context for these texts is the moral philosophy debate about mastering the desires, and the reputation of Epicurus' philosophy as promoting indulgence. The belly became a catchword for a life controlled by pleasures. Belly-worship was not only pejorative rhetoric, but developed from Paul's conviction that the body was destined to a future with Christ.
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• Did I betray the Gospel? : a letter to the Christians
• Should women be in the ministry? : a letter to Daniel
• Are we not ashamed? : a second letter to the Christians
• Are the Scriptures inspired? : a letter to Marcus.

• I. Paul 1) Heikki Raisanen: Did Paul Expect an Earthly Kingdom? 2) Richard H. Bell: The Myth of Adam and the Myth of Christ in Rom, 5.12-21 3) Robert Jewett: Impeaching God's Elect: Romans 8.33-37 in its Rhetoncal Situation 4) Margaret E. Thrall: The Initial Attraction of Paul's Mission in Corinth and of the Church He Founded There 5) Oda Wischmeyer: Paul's Religion: A Review of the Problem 6) Hans Klein: Craftsmanship Assumptions in Pauline Theology 7) Christina Hoegen-Rohis: Paul's Letters 8) Ferdinand Hahn: Observations on the Soteriology of the Letters to the Colossians and Ephesians II. Luke 9) David E. Aune: Luke 1.1
• -4: Historical or Scientific Prooimion? 10) David P. Moessner: Dionysius' Narrative 'Arrangement' (oiOkonomi/a) as the Hermeneutical Key to Luke's Re-Vision of the 'Many' 11) Stanley E. Porter. The Reasons for the Lukan Census 12) Christian Wolff: Acts of the Apostles III. Graeco-Roman World 13) Richard Bauckham: Paul and Other Jews with Latin Names in the New Testament 14) Heinz-Wolfgang Kuhn: The Qumran Meal and the Lord's Supper in Paul in the Context of the Graeco-Roman World.
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The contributors to this volume are David Aune, Stephen Barton, Richard Bauckham, Richard Bell, James Dunn, Ferdinand Hahn, Christina Hoegen-Rohis, Robert Jewett, Hans Klein, H.-W. Kuhn, David Moessner, Stanley Porter, Heikki Raisanen, Margaret Thrail, Christopher Tuckett, Oda Wischmeyer and Christian Wolff. The topics include, among others, Paulinism in Acts, a comparison of the Lord's Supper with cultic meals in Qumran and in Hellenistic cults, glossolalia in Acts, the Lukan prologue, 'new creation' in Paul, and Adam and Christ in Romans. This is volume 217 in the Journal for the Study of the New Testament Supplement series.
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The "conversations" in this collection open by challenging ideas that have become standard and subject them to critical re-examination. The central thread of all these essays is a reflection on the processes of reading and theologizing. Among the contributors to this volume are David E. Aune, Jouette Bassler, Daniel Boyarin, Neil Elliott, Victor Paul Furnish, Lloyd Gaston, Steven J. Kraftchick, Robert C. Morgan, J. Andrew Overman, Mark Reasoner, Peter Richardson, and Robin Scroggs. Juanita Garciagodoy and David H. Hopper offer appreciations of Calvin Roetzel as a teacher and colleague.
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