| Preface |
xi |
| Introduction |
xiii |
| Map: The Eastern Mediterranean in the Time of St. Paul |
xv |
| Abbreviations |
xvi |
| Part I. Annotated Text: The Undoubted Letters of Paul |
|
| First Thessalonians (ca. 51) |
3 |
| Galatians (ca. 54) |
10 |
| First Corinthians (ca. 56) |
22 |
| Second Corinthians (ca. 56) |
48 |
| Romans (ca. 57) |
66 |
| Philippians (ca. 62? 56?) |
94 |
| Philemon (ca. 62? 56?) |
101 |
| Part II. Annotated Text: Works of the Pauline School |
|
| Second Thessalonians (ca. 51?) |
107 |
| Colossians (ca. 62?) |
112 |
| Ephesians (?) |
121 |
| The Pastoral Letters (ca. 125?) |
132 |
| First Timothy |
135 |
| Second Timothy |
141 |
| Titus |
146 |
| Part III. Views of Paul in the Ancient Church |
|
| "Luke" • The Chosen Instrument (ca. 95) |
151 |
| Philipp Vichauer • On the 'Paulinism" of Acts 1950 |
166 |
| Paul as Satan's Apostle: Jewish Christian Opponents |
176 |
| Anonymous • A False Proselyte (3rd Century?) |
177 |
| Epiphanius • The Cennthians (ca. 375) |
178 |
| Anonymous - Messenger of Satan (ca. 200?) |
178 |
| Anonymous - Persecutor of the Faith (?) |
183 |
| The Only True Apostle: Marcion's Radical Paul |
185 |
| Irenacus • Marcion (182-188) |
187 |
| Tertullian - Marcion's Special Work (207) |
187 |
| Marcion • The Antitheses (ca. 140?) |
188 |
| Adolf von Harnack • Marcion's Starting Point (1924) |
190 |
| The Model Ascetic |
|
| Anonymous • The Acts of Paul and Thecla (ca. 190?) |
199 |
| Maurice F. Wiles • The Domesticated Apostle (1967) |
207 |
| Part IV. Law, Grace, and Ethics |
|
| Aurelius Augustine • On Grace and Free Will (427) |
220 |
| Martin Luther • Death to the Law (1535) |
236 |
| Karl Barth • The End of Religion (1919, 1921) |
250 |
| Hans Freiherr von Soden • Sacrament and Ethics in Paul (1931) |
257 |
| Karl Barth - The New Man (1952) |
268 |
| Part V. "The Second Founder of Christianity" |
|
| Ferdinand Christian Baur • Hebraists, Hellenists, and Catholics (1860) |
277 |
| Friedrich Nietzsche • The First Christian (1880) |
288 |
| The Jewish Dysangelist (1888) |
291 |
| George Bernard Shaw • The Monstrous Imposition upon Jesus (1913) |
296 |
| Adolf von Harnack • The Founder of Christian Civilization (1900) |
302 |
| Wilhelm Heitmüller • Hellenistic Christianity Before Paul (1912) |
308 |
| Part VI. Pauline Christianity and Judaism |
|
| Martin Buber • A New Kind of Faith (1951) |
324 |
| Leo Baeck • Paul's Romanticism (1938) |
334 |
| Hans Joachim Schoeps • Paul's Misunderstanding of the Law (1959) |
349 |
| Part VII Paul and Religious Experience |
|
| Soren Kierkegaard • The Joy in the Thought that in Relation to God a Man Always Suffers as Being Guilty (1847) |
365 |
| Adolf Deissmann • The Christ-Mystic (1925) |
374 |
| Albert Schweitzer • Eschatological Mystic (1930) |
387 |
| Martin Dibelius • Mystic and Prophet ( 1941) |
395 |
| Rudolf Bultmann • Paul's Demythologizing and Ours ( 1941) |
409 |
| Krister Stendahl • The Apostle Paul and the Introspective Conscience of the West (1963) |
422 |
| Epilogue |
|
| Wayne A. Meeks • The Christian Proteus |
435 |
| Selected Bibliography |
445 |
| Index |
447 |