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...

would be hard to adjudicate which was the more ‘radical’ in their viewpoint. Philo can press divine origination to the point where, in accordance with the ‘deeper mysteries’, he can relativize talk of human effort or choice as merely useful discourse for the less advanced. Paul can press divine election to the point where God appears wilfully arbitrary, and in dialectical mode can insist on a formulation such as ‘I, yet not I, but the grace of God’ (though never the other way around). 2. There is

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