The subject of Galatians is not whether or not humans, abstractly conceived, can by good deeds earn enough merit to be declared righteous at the judgment; it is the condition on which Gentiles enter the people of God. Paul, the Law, and the Jewish People - Pagina 18de E. P. Sanders - 1983 - 227 paginiPrevizualizare limitată - Despre această carte
| Francis Watson - 1989 - 264 pagini
...Gentile mission (cf. Stendahl). Some of Sanders' exegesis is similar to Stendahl's. Thus he writes: 'The subject of Galatians is not whether or not humans, abstractly conceived, can by doing good deeds earn enough merit to be declared righteous at the judgment; it is the condition on... | |
| Don B. Garlington - 1991 - 360 pagini
...graphically illustrate that pre-Christian Judaism had a place for justification by the free grace of it is the condition on which Gentiles enter the people of God' (Law, p. 18). Hiibner objects that the argumentation in Galatians immediately links circumcision with... | |
| Frank J. Matera - 1992 - 274 pagini
...question the traditional understanding outlined above. In the words of Sanders (Paul, The Law, 18), "The subject of Galatians is not whether or not humans,...condition on which Gentiles enter the people of God." Galatians is "about the condition on which Gentiles enter the people of God"; that is, what are the... | |
| Joel B. Green, Max Turner - 1994 - 564 pagini
...Two quotations from his book, Paul, the Law, and the Jewish People, indicate Sanders's main thrust: The subject of Galatians is not whether or not humans,...the condition on which Gentiles enter the people of God.10 The debate in Galatians is a debate about 'entry' in the sense of what is essential in order... | |
| Mark G. Brett - 1996 - 536 pagini
...and Gentiles in the church. Sanders encapsulated the novelty of this reading of Paul when he wrote: The subject of Galatians is not whether or not humans,...condition on which Gentiles enter the people of God . . . The supposed conflict between "doing" as such and "faith" as such is simply not present in Galatians.... | |
| Peder Borgen - 1998 - 390 pagini
...Gentiles.9 Two quotations from his book Paul, the Law, and the Jewish People indicate his main thrust: The Subject of Galatians is not whether or not humans,...the condition on which Gentiles enter the people of God.10 The debate in Galatians is a debate about 'entry' in the sense of what is essential in order... | |
| Stephen Westerholm - 2004 - 512 pagini
...question of how man is to be saved — be it by works of law or by anything else. (Stendahl, Paul, 29) The subject of Galatians is not whether or not humans,...condition on which Gentiles enter the people of God. (Sanders, Law, 18) "Being righteoused by faith in Christ not by works of law," then, in Galatians means... | |
| Frank J. Matera - 2007 - 284 pagini
...question the traditional understanding outlined above. In the words of Sanders (Paul, The Law, 18), "The subject of Galatians is not whether or not humans,...condition on which Gentiles enter the people of God." Galatians is "about the condition on which Gentiles enter the people of God"; that is, what are the... | |
| Francis Watson - 2007 - 417 pagini
...(mis)reading of Paul through Reformation spectacles." 59. Thus he can write, in terms that recall Stendahl: "The subject of Galatians is not whether or not humans, abstractly conceived, can by doing good deeds earn enough merit to be declared righteous at the judgment; it is the condition on... | |
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