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...

task of leading to life (7:10; cf. 8:3). The agency of God is mentioned briefly in 7:13, but we will return to this later. The agent who dominates most of chapter 7 is clearly the mysterious figure ‘Sin’. Although at one point it was dead, Sin has now seized an opportunity for action (the ἀφορμὴν λαβοῦσα in 7:8, 11), and come alive (7:9). Thus it deceives (7:11), and has produced (κατειργάσατο) desire and death (7:8, 13; cf. 7:11). Paul in Rom. 7:7–13 envisages, then, a primeval ‘once’ in which

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