Paul: His Letters and His Theology : an Introduction to Paul's Epistles

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Paulist Press, 1986 - 278 pagini
A major Pauline theology, the first to have come out in the Catholic area in recent years, which sheds light on and interprets Paul's theology by his letters, his life, and both against the background of his times.

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24 The Freedom for Which Christ Has Set Us Free
101
The First Letter to the Corinthians
112
A The Limit to Freedom
117
B A Second Limit to Freedom
118
26 Marriage Divorce and Celibacy
122
A Sexual Abstinence
124
B The Married
126
C Remarriage
127

9 Pauls Own Account
24
10 The Event on the Way to Damascus
26
11 Pauls Conversion
30
12 The Terms of the Conversion
32
13 Pauls Fundamental Insight
37
14 Paul after the Conversion
41
Pauls Epistles
45
16 The Pauline Epistles
50
17 Pauls Missionary Career
55
The First Epistle to the Thessalonians
59
19 Pauls Gospel
70
20 Beyond the Gospel
75
21 Until the Coming of the Lord
78
The Epistle to the Galatians
83
23 The Law
91
A An Institution of Salvation
93
B A Way of Perfection
95
C The Law as Wisdom
96
D Celibacy
129
E Reasons for Celibacy
131
27 The Church and the Lords Supper
136
28 Concerning Spiritual Gifts
149
A The Principle of Orthodoxy
153
B The Principle of Unity
154
C The Principle of the Common Good
155
29 The Resurrection
159
The Correspondence in 2 Corinthians
170
The Correspondence in Philippians
186
The Epistle to the Romans
206
33 The Spirit of Holiness
226
34 If You Believe
239
Bibliography of Works Cited
257
For Further Reading
260
Index
263
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Pagina 8 - The barge she sat in, like a burnish'd throne, Burn'd on the water ; the poop was beaten gold, Purple the sails, and so perfumed that The winds were love-sick with them, the oars were silver, Which to the tune of flutes kept stroke, and made The water which they beat to follow faster, As amorous of their strokes.
Pagina 70 - God chose what is foolish in the world to shame the wise, God chose what is weak in the world to shame the strong, God chose what is low and despised in the world, even things that are not to bring to nothing things that are, so that no human being might boast in the presence of God.
Pagina 251 - If I speak in the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I am a noisy gong or a clanging cymbal. And if I have prophetic powers, and understand all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have all faith, so as to remove mountains, but have not love, I am nothing.
Pagina 241 - Abba! Father!' "it is the Spirit himself bearing witness with our spirit that we are children of God...
Pagina 87 - And that because of false brethren unawares brought in, who came in privily to spy out our liberty which we have in Christ Jesus, that they might bring us into bondage...
Pagina 137 - Do you not know that all of us who have been baptized into Christ Jesus were baptized into his death? Therefore we have been buried with him by baptism into death, so that, just as Christ was raised from the dead by the glory of the Father, so we too might walk in newness of life.
Pagina 29 - I know a man in Christ who fourteen years ago was caught up to the third heaven — whether in the body or out of the body I do not know, God knows.
Pagina 34 - The LORD rewarded me according to my righteousness; according to the cleanness of my hands hath he recompensed me. For I have kept the ways of the LORD, and have not wickedly departed from my God.
Pagina 157 - And God has appointed in the church first apostles, second prophets, third teachers; then deeds of power, then gifts of healing, forms of assistance, forms of leadership, various kinds of tongues.
Pagina 237 - If the Spirit of him who raised Jesus from the dead dwells in you, he who raised Christ Jesus from the dead will give life to your mortal bodies also through his Spirit which dwells in you.

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