Journal articleReligions · December 1, 2021
Consideration of the nature of New Testament Theology (NTT) necessitates an account of theology or “God-talk”. Karl Barth grasped that all valid God-talk begins with God’s self-disclosure through Jesus and the Spirit, which people acknowledge and reflect o ...
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Journal articleJournal for the Study of the New Testament · June 1, 2021
A critical synthesis of the arguments made by Flexsenhar, Omerzu, Standhartinger and Brélaz, concerning the provenance of Paul’s letter to the Philippians, suggests: (1) ‘the whole of the praetorium’ referenced in 1.13 is a group of people working in an of ...
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Journal articleInterpretation United Kingdom · July 1, 2018
The growing realization that the United States today is characterized by mass incarceration has begun to influence the interpretation of the Bible. This essay will focus on the influence of Paul’s letters on the court and penal system in the United States, ...
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Journal articleRevue Biblique · January 1, 2018
This essay first affirms Tatum's account of the center of Paul's Gospel interms of participationist eschatology. It then briefly assesses Paul's "justification" motifs in the light of this center, suggesting liberational translations, principally of dikaio ...
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Journal articleScottish Journal of Theology · November 1, 2016
The basic agenda and resulting architecture of N. T. Wright's reconstruction of Paul's theology in Paul and the Faithfulness of God are a dramatic and brilliant break with most previous analyses and an important step forward. But closer analysis suggests t ...
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Journal articleNew Testament Studies · 2011
Galatians 5.11. refers to Paul 'proclaiming circumcision'-a proposition that he is concerned to refute because he constructs two compact but powerful inferences designed to falsify it. One argues from present persecution, the other from the cross. Followin ...
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Journal articleNew Testament Studies · 2000
Campbell examines Paul's journey to Pamphylia, as noted in Acts 13.13-14a. He asserts that this passage and Acts 14.24b-26 are deliberately asymmetrical, and it is this that betrays their almost certain accuracy in historical terms. ...
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Journal articleInternational Journal of Systematic Theology · 1999
This reading of Romans 1.19–20 suggests that, viewed within the argumentative progression of the letter from 1.18–3.20, these verses are properly understood as a subversion of the premises of natural revelation, rather than an endorsement of them. The trad ...
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