God and the Faithfulness of Paul

A Critical Examination of the Pauline Theology of N. T. Wright

edited by

Christoph Heilig, J. Thomas Hewitt, and Michael F. Bird

Fortress Press

Minneapolis

GOD AND THE FAITHFULNESS OF PAUL

A Critical Examination of the Pauline Theology of N. T. Wright

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Print ISBN: 978-1-5064-2167-4

eBook ISBN: 978-1-5064-2168-1

Table of Contents

Part I: Prologue

Michael F. Bird, Christoph Heilig, and J. Thomas Hewitt

Introduction

Benjamin Schliesser

Paul and the Faithfulness of God among Pauline Theologies

Part II: Methodological Issues

Oda Wischmeyer

N. T. Wright’s Biblical Hermeneutics:

Considered from A German Exegetical Perspective

Andreas Losch

Wright’s Version of Critical Realism

Theresa Heilig and Christoph Heilig

Historical Methodology

Eve-Marie Becker

Wright’s Paul and the Paul of Acts:

A Critique of Pauline Exegesis—Inspired by Lukan Studies

Steve Moyise

Wright’s Understanding of Paul’s Use of Scripture

Joel R. White

N. T. Wright’s Narrative Approach

Part III: Contextual Issues

James Hamilton Charlesworth

Wright’s Paradigm of Early Jewish Thought:

Avoidance of Anachronisms?

Gregory E. Sterling

Wisdom or Foolishness?:

The Role of Philosophy in the Thought of Paul

James Constantine Hanges

“A World of Shrines and Groves”:

N. T. Wright and Paul among the Gods

Seyoon Kim

Paul and the Roman Empire

Part IV: Exegetical Issues

Gregory Tatum

Law and Covenant in Paul and the Faithfulness of God

Sigurd Grindheim

Election and the Role of Israel

James D. G. Dunn

An Insider’s Perspective on Wright’s Version of the New Perspective on Paul

Peter Stuhlmacher

N. T. Wright’s Understanding of Justification and Redemption

Aquila H. I. Lee

Messianism and Messiah in Paul:

Christ as Jesus?

J. Thomas Hewitt and Matthew V. Novenson

Participationism and Messiah Christology in Paul

Larry W. Hurtado

YHWH’s Return to Zion:

A New Catalyst for Earliest High Christology?

John R. (Jack) Levison

The Spirit in Its Second Temple Context:

An Exegetical Analysis of the Pneumatology of N. T. Wright

Torsten Jantsch

God and His Faithfulness in Paul:

Aspects of the History of Research in Light of the Letter to the Romans

Jörg Frey

Demythologizing Apocalyptic?:

On N. T. Wright’s Paul, Apocalyptic Interpretation, and the Constraints of Construction

Richard H. Bell

Individual Eschatology

Volker Rabens

The Faithfulfness of God and Its Effects on Faithful Living:

A Critical Analysis of Tom Wright’s Faithfulness to Paul’s Ethics

Part V: Implications

Andrew McGowan

Ecclesiology as Ethnology:

The Church in N. T. Wright’s Paul and the Faithfulness of God

James G. Crossley and ...

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About God and the Faithfulness of Paul: A Critical Examination of the Pauline Theology of N. T. Wright

N. T. Wright’s magnum opus Paul and the Faithfulness of God is a landmark study on the history and thought of the apostle Paul. This volume brings together a stellar group of international scholars to critically assess an array of issues in Wright’s work.

Essays in part I set Wright in the context of other Pauline theologies. Part II addresses methodological issues in Wright’s approach, including critical realism, historiography, intertextuality, and narrative. In part III, on context, scholars measure Wright’s representation of early Judaism, Greek philosophy, paganism, and the Roman Empire. Part IV turns to Wright’s exegetical decisions regarding law, covenant, and election, the “New Perspective,” justification and redemption, Christology, Spirit, eschatology, and ethics. Part V at last speaks to the implications of Wright’s work for the church’s theology, sacraments, and mission, and for global responsibility in a “postmodern” age. The volume includes a critical response from Wright himself.

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