turning away from sin. Other ideas of the same kind, in which the “thinking” of man is very closely linked with his moral self-determination and his whole religious-moral attitude to life, could also be pointed out.75 For our purpose it is sufficient to ascertain that from the viewpoint of a theological anthropology the concept nous has great significance in Paul, in that nous on the one hand denotes the organ, the possibility, in which man is addressed as a thinking and responsible being by the