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The letter to the Galatians is a key source for Pauline theology as it presents Paul's understanding of justification, the gospel, and many topics of keen contemporary interest. In this volume, some of the world's top Christian scholars offer cutting-edge scholarship on how Galatians relates to theology and ethics.The stellar list of contributors includes John Barclay, Beverly Gaventa, Richard Hays, Bruce McCormack, and Oliver O'Donovan. As they emphasize the contribution of Galatians to Christian theology and ethics, the contributors explore how exegesis and theology meet, critique, and inform each other.

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Publié par	Baker Publishing Group
Date de parution	09 septembre 2014
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EAN13	9781441245892
Langue	English
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© 2014 by Mark W. Elliott, Scott J. Hafemann, N. T. Wright, and John Frederick
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Contents
Cover i
Title Page iii
Copyright Page iv
Preface: Galatians and Christian Theology ix
Abbreviations xiv
Part 1: Justification 1
1. Messiahship in Galatians? 3
N. T. Wright
2. Paul’s Former Occupation in Ioudaismos 24
Matthew V. Novenson
3. Galatians in the Early Church: Five Case Studies 40
Karla Pollmann and Mark W. Elliott
4. Justification and Participation: Ecumenical Dimensions of Galatians 62
Thomas Söding
5. Arguing with Scripture in Galatia: Galatians 3:10–14 as a Series of Ad Hoc Arguments 82
Timothy G. Gombis
6. Martin Luther on Galatians 3:6–14: Justification by Curses and Blessings 91
Timothy Wengert
7. Yaein: Yes and No to Luther’s Reading of Galatians 3:6–14 117
Scott Hafemann
8. “Not an Idle Quality or an Empty Husk in the Heart”: A Critique of Tuomo Mannermaa on Luther and Galatians 132
Javier A. Garcia
9. Judaism, Reformation Theology, and Justification 143
Mark W. Elliott
10. Can We Still Speak of “Justification by Faith”? An In-House Debate with Apocalyptic Readings of Paul 159
Bruce McCormack
Part 2: Gospel 185
11. The Singularity of the Gospel Revisited 187
Beverly Roberts Gaventa
12. Apocalyptic Poiēsis in Galatians: Paternity, Passion, and Participation 200
Richard B. Hays
13. “Now and Above; Then and Now” (Gal. 4:21–31): Platonizing and Apocalyptic Polarities in Paul’s Eschatology 220
Michael B. Cover
14. Christ in Paul’s Narrative: Salvation History, Apocalyptic Invasion, and Supralapsarian Theology 230
Edwin Chr. van Driel
15. “In the Fullness of Time” (Gal. 4:4): Chronology and Theology in Galatians 239
Todd D. Still
16. Karl Barth and “The Fullness of Time”: Eternity and Divine Intent in the Epistle to the Galatians 249
Darren O. Sumner
17. “Heirs through God”: Galatians 4:4–7 and the Doctrine of the Trinity 258
Scott R. Swain
Part 3: Ethics 269
18. Flesh and Spirit 271
Oliver O’Donovan
19. “Indicative and Imperative” as the Substructure of Paul’s Theology-and-Ethics in Galatians? A Discussion of Divine and Human Agency in Paul 285
Volker Rabens
20. Grace and the Countercultural Reckoning of Worth: Community Construction in Galatians 5–6 306
John M. G. Barclay
21. Paul’s Exhortations in Galatians 5:16–25: From the Apostle’s Techniques to His Theology 318
Jean-Noël Aletti
22. The Drama of Agency: Affective Augustinianism and Galatians 335
Simeon Zahl
23. Life in the Spirit and Life in Wisdom: Reading Galatians and James as a Dialogue 353
Mariam J. Kamell
Notes 364
List of Contributors 365
Subject Index 366
Scripture Index 371
Author Index 377
Back Cover 381
Preface
Galatians and Christian Theology
Reason for Being
This volume, from the St Andrews Galatians and Christian Theology Conference (2012), is the fruit of the fourth of our series of triennial Scripture and Theology conferences at the University of St Andrews. From the inception of this series back in 2003 (with a conference on the Gospel of John), the idea was to bring Scripture scholars and theologians together to try to get them to talk to one another, even if to begin with it seemed that too much of the talking was “talking past” one another. During the Genesis and Christian Theology conference (2009), the vision seemed to be realized during many of the sessions: a real attempt was made and satisfaction was experienced in the meeting of minds and even conceptualities across the biblical-theological studies divide. Yet perhaps even then we did not see as much of that interaction either in the preparation of the main papers or in what was finally produced in print as we had hoped would happen.
So it seemed to the organizers and to the editors of this volume writing this now delightful and significant when in July 2012 many of the biblical scholars and theologians giving the main papers had clearly taken the initiative, not only in discussion but also in the talks they prepared, to begin to occupy themselves with the writings of those on the other side of this divide. They had taken a look “to see how the other half lives.” Thus discussions that followed the paper presentations began at a point further down the line than had been the case at previous conferences. McCormack, O’Donovan, and Söding struck us as those who had deliberately wandered quite some way from their home subject in order to see their own subdiscipline more clearly. (As Tom Waits sang, “I never saw the east coast until I moved to the west.”) But also there were papers by biblical scholars who wanted to approach the res , the matter, with which the Pauline text dealt via a consideration of contextual philosophical and ethical thinking Barclay, Rabens, and Cover in particular. The several papers by Pollmann and Elliott, Wengert, and Hafemann that looked at Galatians from the history of its interpretation, which has been by nature integrative, helped to frame the context for these cross-disciplinary discussions. That this happened with a minimum of prompting from conference organizers and editors does not mean that this volume is necessarily better than its predecessors (on John, Hebrews, and Genesis), but it is at least more integrated. In responding to Baker Academic’s helpful encouragement to include several shorter papers as well as the main addresses, we are able to show that uninvited papers reinforced and enhanced the main concerns we had. This does not mean that the range of topics was censored: when we came to select the short papers, what did matter was that they attempted to “do” Scripture and theology and managed to do it in a way that we felt was promising and encouraging.
It was perhaps salutary to have a few papers that seemed unmistakably one thing or the other, but even then (in the case of papers by Wright, Gaventa, Novenson, Still, and Gombis) the question of Paul’s Messiah, Paul’s gospel, and Paul’s Judaism are hardly nontheological questions, especially since these questions are also being asked by extracanonical texts. There were occasional moments where the theological atmosphere felt too much for the average exegete, and where perhaps theologians felt overly constrained by the need to stay close to the six chapters of Galatians. Such moments of discomfort are salutary. The last thing we wanted was a collection of essays that were of no use to the study of either Scripture or theology, just for the sake of intradisciplinarity within divinity studies. One might add that at St Andrews we are proud that the historical-exegetical and the conceptual-applicative tasks have stood together under the one heading: divinity. There might not be much of a future for such an old-fashioned sounding term, but it does the job for us. Still, the intradisciplinary process is one of attraction and repulsion, and it keeps things more honest.
Structure and Content
In terms of what is covered and the volume’s structure, it was pleasing when our biblically-theologically eagle-eyed commissioning editor at Baker Academic, Jim Kinney, saw that the material fell gracefully into three parts: Justification, Gospel, and Ethics.
When it comes to Galatians, whatever one’s feeling about the amount of coverage this topic has received in recent years since E. P. Sanders on the one hand for Scripture studies (1977), and since the Roman Catholic–Lutheran Joint Declaration on Justification on the other hand for theology (1999), there is no escaping “Justification.” But perhaps there is a going through it and beyond, even while never leaving it behind. There is a fair amount in this volume not only about Luther and Lutherans (Wengert, Zahl) but also about the patristic (Pollmann and Elliott) debates. One accusation leveled against those promoting the new perspective on Paul (NPP) was that they did not really know the Reformers. The NPP rejoinder might have been and might be that those resisting the NPP knew the Reformers all too well. These essays (esp. Wengert and Hafemann, but also Garcia and Elliott) do not stick with the Reformers for their own sake.
The NPP not only has come of age but it also now has a look of seniority. The direction that the impact of the New Yale School