What was Paul’s Gospel?

28 April 2019 · by · in Uncategorized
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  • Campbell, Douglas. 2005. The Quest for Paul’s Gospel: A suggested strategy. London: T&T Clark.
  • Dunn, James. 2006. The Theology of Paul the Apostle. Grand Rapids: Eerdmans.
  • Dunn, James D.G. 2011. “The Gospel according to St Paul” in The Blackwell Companion to Paul.
  • Hays, Richard B. 2004. “Is Paul’s Gospel Narratable?” Journal for the Study of the New Testament, 27.2; pp 217-39. 
  • Gorman, Michael. 2009. Inhabiting the Cruciform God: Kenosis, Justification, and Theosis in Paul’s Narrative Soteriology. Grand Rapids: Eerdmans.
  • Horrell, David G. 2020. ‘Why were people attracted to Paul’s Good News?’ in The New Cambridge Companion to St Paul, Bruce W. Longenecker, ed. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. p260-77.
  • Kim, Seyoon. 1982. The Origin of Paul’s Gospel. Grand Rapids: Eerdmans.
  • Räisänen, Heikki. 1987. “Paul’s Conversion and the Development of his View of the Law,” New Testament Studies, 33.3; pp 404-19.
  • Sanders, E. P. 1991. Paul: A Very Short Introduction. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 
  • Sanders, E. P. 2008. “Did Paul’s Theology Develop?” in The Word Leaps the Gap: Essays on Scripture and Theology in Honor of Richard B. Hays. Grand Rapids: Eerdmans. 
  • Stanton, Graham. 2003. “Paul’s Gospel” in Cambridge Companion to St Paul, ed. J.D.G. Dunn. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
  • Stuhlmacher, Peter. 1991. “The Pauline Gospel” in The Gospel and the Gospels, ed. P. Stuhlmacher. Grand Rapids: Eerdmans.

Questions to consider: 

  • Was Paul’s theology systematically worked out, coherent but not systematic, merely ad hoc, or something else?
  • What is the essence of Paul’s message? How would you explain it if you were asked to write an OUP Very Short Introduction to Paul? 

Suggested Practice Gobbets: 1 Corinthians 1.18-24; Ephesians 3.2-9