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Leading Scholar Explores Paul's Teaching on the MindThis major work by a leading New Testament scholar explores an important but neglected area of Pauline theology, Paul's teaching about the mind. In discussing matters such as the corrupted mind, the mind of Christ, and the renewal of the mind, Paul adapts language from popular intellectual thought in his day, but he does so in a way distinctively focused on Christ and Christ's role in the believer's transformation. Keener enables readers to understand this thought world so they can interpret Paul's language for contemporary Christian life. The book helps overcome a false separation between following the Spirit and using human judgment and provides a new foundation for relating biblical studies and Christian counseling.

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Philosophie et théologie

Pentecostalism

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Publié par	Baker Publishing Group
Date de parution	21 juin 2016
Nombre de lectures	0
EAN13	9781493404605
Langue	English
Poids de l'ouvrage	2 Mo

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Cover
Title Page
Copyright Page
© 2016 by Craig S. Keener
Published by Baker Academic
a division of Baker Publishing Group
P.O. Box 6287, Grand Rapids, MI 49516-6287
www.bakeracademic.com
Ebook edition created 2016
Ebook corrections 10.07.2016, 01.11.2019
All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means—for example, electronic, photocopy, recording—without the prior written permission of the publisher. The only exception is brief quotations in printed reviews.
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data is on file at the Library of Congress, Washington, DC.
ISBN 978-1-4934-0460-5
Unless noted otherwise, all translations of Scripture are those of the author.
Scripture quotations labeled NEB are from The New English Bible . Copyright © 1961, 1970, 1989 by The Delegates of Oxford University Press and The Syndics of the Cambridge University Press. Reprinted by permission.
Scripture quotations labeled NRSV are from the New Revised Standard Version of the Bible, copyright © 1989, by the Division of Christian Education of the National Council of the Churches of Christ in the United States of America. Used by permission. All rights reserved.
Chapter 4, “The Mind of the Spirit (Rom. 8:5–7),” is mostly new work, but, with the permission of Brill, incorporates a revision of Craig S. Keener, “‘Fleshly’ versus Spirit Perspectives in Romans 8:5–8,” in Paul: Jew, Greek and Roman , ed. Stanley Porter, PAST 5 (Leiden: Brill, 2008), 211–29.
Chapter 8, “The Heavenly Mind (Col. 3:1–2),” is adapted, with the permission of Sheffield Phoenix Press, from Craig S. Keener, “Heavenly Mindedness and Earthly Good: Contemplating Matters Above in Colossians 3.1–2,” JGRCJ 6 (2009): 175–90.
Dedication
For our beloved children, David and Keren
Contents
Cover i
Title Page iii
Copyright Page iv
Dedication v
Acknowledgments xiii
Introduction xv
What This Book Addresses
What This Book Is Not Addressing
Implications for Theological Reflection in Today’s Church
Abbreviations xxiii
1. The Corrupted Mind (Rom. 1:18–32) 1
The Pagan World’s Corrupted Mind
Summary of Paul’s Likely Argument
An Early Jewish Analogy
God’s Wrath against Idolaters
Information about God in Creation
E XCURSUS : Knowledge of God in Ancient Mediterranean Thought 6
Corrupted Minds Resist Rational Evidence from Creation
The Folly of Idolatry
The Madness of Sin as Its Own Punishment
Handed Over to Irrational Desires
Thoughts Corrupted by Passions
Changing God’s Image (Rom. 1:23–27)
Unfit Minds (Rom. 1:28)
Conclusion
2. The Mind of Faith (Rom. 6:11) 31
Death with Christ (Rom. 6:1–10)
Producing Righteousness
The New Identity
Dead with Christ
E XCURSUS : Mystery Background for Dying and Rising with Christ? 35
Does Death to Sin Eradicate Passions?
Freed from Slavery
Defined by Destiny in Christ
Reckoning the New Reality by Faith
Faith and Reckoning
Cognitive Reckoning in Other Ancient Sources
E XCURSUS : Self-Knowledge 46
Identifying with Christ
Living Out the New Identity
Considering Paul’s Solution
Conclusion
3. The Mind of the Flesh (Rom. 7:22–25) 55
Depiction of Christian or Pre-Christian Situation?
Earlier Interpreters
Survey of Modern Views
Romans 7:7–25 as the Christian Life
Romans 7:7–25 as a Non-Christian Experience
Why Use Present-Tense Verb Forms?
Who Is the “I” in Romans 7?
Autobiographical?
Generic or Projected “I”
Adam?
Israel
Survey of the Context and Function of Romans 7:7–25
The Problem of Passion
Passion and the Law in Hellenistic Jewish Sources
Desire in Romans 7:7
E XCURSUS : Ancient Views concerning Lust and Other Illicit Desires 82
Judean Passions: The Evil Impulse
Internal Conflict
Ancient Beliefs about Internal Struggle
Envisioning Someone Overwhelmed by Passion
Bondage of the Will? Wanting to Do Right
Law in One’s Body versus Law in One’s Mind (Rom. 7:22–25)
Law in the Mind
The Law, the Body, and Sin
Bodily Desires in Ancient Thinking
E XCURSUS : Flesh 101
Paul and the Body
An Image of Defeat
E XCURSUS : Ancient Military Metaphors 110
Conclusion
4. The Mind of the Spirit (Rom. 8:5–7) 113
The New Frame of Mind
Disposition and the Mind
Relation to the Defeated Mind of Romans 7
Contrast with the Law-Approach of Romans 7
Two Ways of Thinking
The Emphasis on Wise Thinking in Philosophy
Ideal Types
Two Categories in Humanity as Ideal Types
Jewish Ideal Types
Sharing God’s Mind
Sharing the Divine Mind in Greek Thought
Indwelling Deity in Gentile and Jewish Thought
Experiencing the Spirit
The Frame of Mind of the Spirit Is Peace (Rom. 8:6)
Tranquil Minds in the Philosophers
Possible Exegetical Basis for the Peaceful Mind
Community Tranquility
Conclusion
5. A Renewed Mind (Rom. 12:1–3) 143
Presenting Bodies as Sacrifices
Sacrifices in Antiquity
A Living Sacrifice
A Rational Sacrifice
Transformed versus Conformed
The New Age versus the Old
Renewal for a New Age
The Mind and Transformation
Discerning God’s Will
Evaluative Criteria
Good, Pleasing, and Perfect as Criteria
The Literary Context for This Renewing of the Mind
God’s Own Mind in the Preceding Context
A Mind for the Body of Christ in the Following Context
Conclusion
6. The Mind of Christ (1 Cor. 2:15–16) 173
True Wisdom (1 Cor. 1:18–2:10)
The Wisdom of the Cross (1 Cor. 1:17–2:5)
Wisdom of the Future Age (1 Cor. 2:6–10)
The Spirit’s Insight (1 Cor. 2:10–13)
The Spirit as Revealer (1 Cor. 2:10–11)
Understanding by God’s Spirit versus the World’s Spirit (1 Cor. 2:12–13)
Spiritual Competence to Assess Truth (1 Cor. 2:14–15)
A Pervasive Culture of Evaluation
Evaluation Criteria
Inability to Understand Spirit Matters (1 Cor. 2:14–15)
E XCURSUS : “Natural” and “Spiritual” Persons 189
Suggested Sources of the Language
Mortals in Adam versus the Spirit of Christ
We Have the Mind of Christ (1 Cor. 2:16)
Paul’s Biblical Basis
Revealing God’s Mind
Ministry Gifts and God’s Mind
Divine Inspiration and Empowerment, Not Divine Identity (1 Cor. 3:3–4)
E XCURSUS : Divinization in Greek and Roman Tradition 202
Transformation through Vision (2 Cor. 3:18)
Hellenistic Vision of the Divine
Jewish Vision of the Divine and God’s Image
Glory Revealed to Moses and Jesus’s Agents
The Experience of the Spirit
Conclusion
7. A Christlike Mind (Phil. 2:1–5; 3:19–21; 4:6–8) 217
Divine Peace Guards Minds in Christ (Phil. 4:7)
Celebration in Christ (Phil. 4:4)
Prayer Rather Than Worry (Phil. 4:6)
Considering What Is Pure (Phil. 4:8)
Thinking like Christ (Phil. 2:5)
Citizens of Heaven (Phil. 3:20)
Conclusion
8. The Heavenly Mind (Col. 3:1–2) 237
Contemplating Heavenly Matters (Col. 3:1–2)
Heavenly Mindedness in Greek and Roman Sources
Heavenly Mindedness in Early Jewish and Christian Sources
“Where Christ Is Enthroned” (Col. 3:1)
Heavenly Beings or God’s Throne
The Exalted Christ
Moral Implications of Heavenly Contemplation
En-Christed Life
The Intelligibility of the Moral Connection for Ancient Hearers
Heavenly Afterlife and Colossians 3
Conclusion
Conclusion 253
Postscript: Some Pastoral Implications 257
Divided Churches
Divided Hearts?
Pastoral Psychology
Worldviews
Practically Implementing the Insights
Appendix A: The Soul in Ancient Mediterranean Thought 267
The Soul as a Distinct Entity
The Soul’s Afterlife
Jewish Thinkers regarding Soul and Body
Jewish Thinkers regarding the Afterlife
Appendix B: Some of God’s Wise Plan in Paul’s Bible 279
Bibliography 281
Index of Subjects 327
Index of Authors and Selected Names 330
Index of Scripture 341
Index of Other Ancient Sources 354
Back Cover 405
Acknowledgments
I am grateful to Professor Virginia (Toddy) Holeman from the School of Counseling at Asbury Theological Seminary for her insights on the relevant portions of this manuscript. I am grateful to my editors at Baker Academic, Jim Kinney, James Ernest (formerly at Baker), Tim West, and Amy Donaldson. I am also grateful to the Assemblies of God Theological Seminary for welcoming me as the Horton lecturer and providing dialogue on the subject of this book on February 3–5, 2015, and to New Theological College, Dehradun, India, to Urshan Graduate School of Theology, and to Southern Adventist University for interacting with my lectures on this topic in January and March 2016.
Introduction
Pauline scholars have rightly explored at great length Paul’s soteriology, Christology, and pneumatology and his views of Israel and Scripture. Yet even among the fewer discussions of Pauline anthropology, very rarely have scholars devoted extensive attention to his view of the mind, 1 especially in a way that explains how he may have shaped his language to communicate to his contemporaries.
More recent insights into this subject by scholars conversant in ancient philosophy, such as Stanley Stowers and Troels Engberg-Pedersen, have not always been incorporated into exegetical or theological discussions to the extent that their contributions merit. 2 I hope that subsequent interpreters will take more account of their contributions (and mine), although further research will undoubtedly draw on a wider range of sources and provide further nuance to our earlier discussions on these topics.
Previous interpreters have rightly emphasized the importance of believers’ righteousness in Romans, usually in terms of one’s status or relationship with God and/or in terms of moral righteousness or transformation. What interpreters have often missed, however, is how Paul uses cognition to connect these key elements. How does one move from righteous identity to righteous living? Paul emphasizes the importance of a right understanding corresponding to the divine perspective—an understanding that may complement, or even more likely that functions as another aspect of, what Paul calls faith.
What This Book Addresses
Chapter 1 of this book addresses Paul’s depiction of the corrupted pag