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Paul Today discusses and challenges popular interpretations of familiar Pauline texts in view of important controversies and debates. Who was Paul? What do we know about his relationship to Jesus? What was the role of the city of Ephesus? Can Paul's attitudes towards marriage and slavery be redeemed? And what of Paul's attitude to women and their ministry, and to homosexuality? Do we appropriately attribute to Paul ideas about justification and faith? Or is there more to know than meets the eye? Throughout, Need debates and reframes familiar interpretations of Paul through challenge and critique informed by both scholarship and pastoral experience. These essays make constructive, critical approaches to Paul available to a wider circle of interested readers.
Stephen W. Need is dean of St. George's College in Jerusalem, Israel.
Chapter 1 IntroductionChapter 2 A Portrait of Paul — Painting a Picture of the Apostle to the GentilesChapter 3 Paul and Jesus — A New Testament ConundrumChapter 4 Paul and Ephesus — Texts, History, and ArchaeologyChapter 5 Contextualizing Paul — Marriage and Slavery in 1 CorinthiansChapter 6 Discerning the Body — Food, Conscience, and the Eucharist in 1 CorinthiansChapter 7 Paul and Women — Setting the Record StraightChapter 8 Paul and Homosexuality — What's the Problem?Chapter 9 A Revolution in Pauline Studies — Considering the "New Look" on PaulChapter 10 Paul and Christ — Christology, Ethics, and EcclesiologyChapter 11 The Fall and Original Sin — The Real Meaning of Romans 5:12-21Chapter 12 Justification by Faith? — Paul's Theology of RighteousnessChapter 13 EpilogueChapter 14 Bibliography
Well-informed overviews of important texts and critical issues initiate the reader painlessly into the complexities of interpreting the Pauline letters.
