Divine and Human Agency in Paul and His Cultural Environment (Biblia.com)

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Since the work of E. P. Sanders, most modern approaches to the question of divine and human agency have focused on social or sociological aspects of the issue (particularly in relation to Paul’s temporary social and religious settings mission to the Gentiles). However, the last few years have seen an increasing willingness to open up questions seemingly ‘settled’ in the New Perspective, and a...

Paul can conceive of the possibility that the Galatians refuse to walk by the Spirit and sow to the Flesh: where do they derive the impetus (the will) to deny the Spirit, and, if from the Flesh, why does Paul exhort the Galatians on this matter?36 Can we give sufficient (I do not say ‘equal’) weight to both divine and human agency to make sense of both Paul’s prayers and his exhortations? Is it helpful to frame these in terms of chronological anteriority, or is the placement of one agency ‘within’

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