Loading…

The Mind of the Spirit: Paul’s Approach to Transformed Thinking is unavailable, but you can change that!

In this major work, leading New Testament scholar Craig Keener explores an important but generally neglected area of Pauline theology, Paul’s teaching about the mind. Paul speaks of the corrupted mind and the mind of the flesh, but he also speaks of the mind of Christ, the mind of the Spirit, and the renewal of the mind. In articulating these points, Paul adapts language from popular intellectual...

helpful.162 In Stoicism, “Once a person had come to the decisive insight and self-understanding that reordered every value in relation to that insight, then one was qualitatively different, even if one still” needed to be exhorted with respect to details.163 Paul’s paraenesis in Romans remains consistent with his prior argument. Paul would not view his approach as merely a mental reform method, analogous to that of philosophers. His understanding of faith in Christ’s work
Page 52