Paul and Philosophy

1983 first dissertation; 2000 second dissertation; 2000−16 Professor of New Testament, University of Copenhagen; professor emeritus.

• Introduction: Speaking Within the Christ CircleChapter 1: Stoicism in PhilippiansChapter 2: Galatians in Romans 5-8 and Paul's Construction of the Identity of Christ BelieversChapter 3: Paul Beyond the Judaism/Hellenism DivideChapter 4: The Reception of Graeco-Roman Culture in the New Testament: The Case of Romans 7.7-25Chapter 5: Radical Altruism in Philippians 2.4Chapter 6: The Relationship with Others: Similarities and Differences Between Paul and StoicismChapter 7: Complete and Incomplete Transformation in Paul - a Philosophical Reading of Paul on Body and SpiritChapter 8: Gift-Giving and Friendship: Seneca and Paul in Romans 1-8 on the Logic of God's Χάρις and Its Human ResponseChapter 9: The Logic of Action in Paul: How Does He Differ from the Moral Philosophers on Spiritual and Moral Progression and Regression?Chapter 10: A Stoic Concept of the Person in Paul? From Galatians 5.17 to Romans 7.14-25Chapter 11: Paul and UniversalismChapter 12: The Sinful Body: Paul on Marriage and SexChapter 13: On Comparison: The Stoic Theory of Value in Paul's Theology and Ethics in PhilippiansChapter 14: Paul in Philippians and Seneca in Epistle 93 on Life after Death and its Present ImplicationsChapter 15: Pauline Epistemology: Νοῦς and πνεῦμα in Stoicism and PaulChapter 16: Justice, Love and the Gift: The Logic of Pauline Soteriology