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7 - Paul and His Diverse Champions

from Part II - Contested Figures

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  23 August 2023

By
Benjamin L. White
Edited by
Bruce W. Longenecker  and
David E. Wilhite
Bruce W. Longenecker
Affiliation:
Baylor University, Texas
David E. Wilhite
Affiliation:
Baylor University, Texas
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Summary

The Pauline Epistles, or some portion of them, provide a remarkably early picture of the Christ movement as it spread through Asia Minor and Greece in the 40s and 50s ce.1 They render evidence that only a decade or two into the movement’s existence there were serious tensions developing around fundamental problems of Christian identity and culture. Several questions are of primary concern in our earliest Christian documents.2 How will Gentiles be incorporated into Israel’s eschatological salvation? What is their obligation to Torah? How are prior identities transformed “in Christ”? What obligations do members of Christ’s body have to one another? What can followers of Jesus expect to encounter from a world controlled by hostile principalities and powers? One does not have to read between the lines of the Epistles to understand that their author, a diaspora Jew with a zealous past, was more than a little responsible for the factions developing around these issues.

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The Cambridge History of Ancient Christianity , pp. 154 - 174
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2023

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