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The apostle Paul and his significance for the New Testament and Christianity is a perennial topic of interest, but few evangelical surveys of his life offer a truly holistic picture of the man and his world. Now available in trade paper, John McRay's Paul explores the apostle's preconversion days, missionary travels, and theological contributions. A specialist in archaeology, the author draws on his more than forty years of teaching experience as well as knowledge gained from extensive travels to the places Paul visited. Paul is a comprehensive and readable presentation of Paul's ministry and theology that weaves together historical backgrounds, archaeological discoveries, and theological themes.

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Philosophie et théologie

Christian theology

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Publié par	Baker Publishing Group
Date de parution	01 janvier 2007
Nombre de lectures	2
EAN13	9781441205742
Langue	English
Poids de l'ouvrage	1 Mo

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© 2003 by John McRay
Published by Baker Academic a division of Baker Book House Company P.O. Box 6287, Grand Rapids, MI 49516-6287 www.bakeracademic.com
Ebook edition created 2012
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.
Unless otherwise indicated, all Scripture is taken from the Revised Standard Version of the Bible, copyright 1946, 1952, 1971 by the Division of Christian Education of the National Council of the Churches of Christ in the USA. Used by permission.
Scripture marked NRSV is taken 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 USA. Used by permission.
Scripture marked NIV is taken from the HOLY BIBLE, NEW INTERNATIONAL VERSION®. NIV®. Copyright © 1973, 1978, 1984 by International Bible Society. Used by permission of Zondervan Publishing House. All rights reserved.
eISBN 978-1-4412-0574-2
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data is on file at the Library of Congress, Washington, DC.
To my sons, Rob, David, and Barrett, who share with me a love for Paul and with whom I have excavated and explored the world of Paul
Contents
Cover
Title Page
Copyright Page
Dedication
List of Illustrations
Preface
List of Abbreviations
Part 1 Paul’s Life
1. Background and Biography
2. Conversion, Call, and Commission
3. Toward a Chronology of Paul’s Ministry
4. In Syria, Arabia, and Cilicia before the First Journey
5. Paul’s First Journey
6. Paul’s Second Journey
7. Paul’s Third Journey
8. The Voyage to Rome, Later Travels, and Death
Part 2 Paul’s Teaching
9. The Form, Function, and Canonicity of Pauline Letters
10. Paul’s World of Apocalyptic and Demonology
11. Paul and the Incarnation of Jesus Christ
12. Atonement in Pauline Literature
13. The Heart of Paul: The Theology of Ephesians
14. The Faith(fulness) of Christ in Pauline Literature
15. Paul’s View of the Law
16. The Composition of Paul’s Churches: Organization, Lord’s Supper, and Baptism
17. Eschatology and the Work of the Holy Spirit in Paul’s Thought
18. Paul in Recent Study

Subject Index
Author Index
Scripture Index
Notes
Illustrations
Photos
1.1 Cydnus River in Tarsus
2.1 Street Called Straight in Damascus
4.1 Jerusalem’s Temple Mount Seen from Olivet
5.1 Antioch of Syria
5.2 Salamis Forum in Cyprus
5.3 Paphos in Cyprus
5.4 Perga
5.5 Aqueduct in Antioch of Pisidia
5.6 Antalya Harbor
6.1 Cilician Gates
6.2 Troas
6.3 Samothrace
6.4 Neapolis Harbor
6.5 Forum in Philippi
6.6 Philippi Jail
6.7 Amphipolis
6.8 Politarch Inscription at Thessalonica
6.9 Thessalonica Forum
6.10 Piraeus Harbor
6.11 Athens Acropolis
6.12 Eastern Agora in Athens
6.13 Mars Hill near the Acropolis in Athens
6.14 Temple of Athena in Corinth with Acrocorinth Behind
6.15 Erastus Inscription in Corinth
6.16 Bema at Corinth with Acrocorinth Behind
6.17 Cenchreae Harbor
7.1 Theater and Harbor at Ephesus
7.2 Lecture Hall of Tyrannus in Ephesus
7.3 Assos Harbor
7.4 Miletus Theater
7.5 Cos Harbor
7.6 Rhodes Harbor
7.7 Patara Coastline
7.8 Tyre Harbor
7.9 Acco Harbor at Ptolemais
7.10 Caesarea Harbor Seen from the Temple of Augustus
7.11 Caesarea Harbor Seen from the Sea
7.12 Temple Mount in Jerusalem
7.13 Model of Herod’s Temple in Jerusalem
8.1 Caesarea Harbor Seen from Promontory Palace
8.2 Myra
8.3 Smith’s Bay and Island of Paul at Malta
8.4 Church of St. Paul at Malta
8.5 Puteoli
8.6 Romans 13:3 Inscription at Caesarea
8.7 Nicopolis
8.8 Mammertine Prison in Rome
8.9 Church of St. Paul Outside the Walls near Rome
Maps
5.1 Paul’s First Missionary Journey
6.1 Paul’s Second Missionary Journey
7.1 Paul’s Third Missionary Journey
8.1 Paul’s Journey to Rome
8.2 Paul’s Post-Captivity Visits
Tables
3.1 Condensed Outline of Pauline Chronology
3.2 Chronology of Paul
4.1 Sixfold Structure of Acts
4.2 Conversions in Acts
5.1 Fourteenth-Year Visit and Subsequent Events
8.1 Persons Mentioned in the Prison Epistles
8.2 Ephesians and Colossians Compared
9.1 Philemon and Ancient Letter Compared
9.2 Structure of Paul’s Letters
9.3 Paul’s Letter Subscriptions
9.4 Position of Pauline Corpus in the New Testament
9.5 Ancient Line Counts for Paul’s Letters
9.6 Line Counts in the Chester Beatty Papyrus
9.7 Line Counts in Codex Claromontanus
9.8 Paragraph Numbering in Codex Vaticanus
9.9 Position of Hebrews in the Pauline Corpus
10.1 Paul’s Words for Heavens
10.2 Stoic and Gnostic Cosmologies Compared
12.1 Atonement Theories
13.1 Heavenly Inhabitants in Ephesians
14.1 Faith in/of Christ in Translations
16.1 Qualifications of Elders, Deacons, and Christians
17.1 Ephesians and Corinthians Compared
17.2 Ephesians and Romans Compared
Figures
4.1 Conversion Sequence in Acts
10.1 Seven-Heaven Cosmology
12.1 Tabernacle Typologies
12.2 Typology of Christ’s High Priestly Work
Preface
In his masterful volume Paul: Apostle of the Heart Set Free, F. F. Bruce wrote that “no single event, apart from the Christ-event itself, has proved so determinant for the course of Christian history as the conversion and commissioning of Paul” (75). I share this conviction, which has motivated and guided my life as a college professor. I have taught courses on Paul for forty-five years, written a doctoral dissertation on one of his letters (1 Corinthians), and traveled extensively in the Mediterranean world since 1967, tracing out the routes Paul traveled. It has been my goal to explore every city of the approximately fifty he visited, and I have done that with the exception of only three or four. I have lived in Israel and Greece for extended periods of time researching the life of Paul and supervising teams in archaeological excavations in cities of Israel, including Caesarea Maritima, where Paul was imprisoned for two years. In addition, I have written more than 140 articles in eighteen dictionaries and encyclopedias, many of these articles on Paul. So when I completed my book on Archaeology and the New Testament for Baker Book House in 1991 and was asked to write this book on Paul, I was happy to accept the invitation because of my deep and abiding interest in the great apostle.
At the publisher’s request, I have written this book on the level of a college text and not for the scholarly world of professors and critics. Therefore, the use of foreign languages is minimal, and reference to contemporary critical views is usually placed in the notes and summarized in chapter 18 (“Paul in Recent Study”). It has been my aim to produce a volume that essentially reflects the content and method of my college courses on Paul and the results of my twenty-seven trips to the Holy Lands studying Paul’s world. As I exhort my students to do, I have tried to “put on my first-century glasses,” look at Paul in his Jewish and Hellenistic world of the Mediterranean, and see him not as a fourth-century church father, a sixteenth-century Protestant reformer, or a twenty-first-century evangelical missionary, but as what he was, a first-century Jewish rabbi who accepted Jesus as his Messiah and became an ardent, dedicated Messianic Jew.
In this volume, I have tried to emphasize that Paul was not the founder of Christianity, that he never ceased to be a Jew, and that Christianity is not a Gentile religion. There has never been a greater advocate of the universal composition of the Christian faith than Paul, who emphatically asserted that in Christ “there is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither slave nor free, there is neither male nor female; for you are all one in Christ Jesus” (Gal. 3:28). This means that when people place their trust in Jesus, neither Jews nor Gentiles have to abandon their ancestry, neither males nor females have to abandon their gender, and neither slaves nor free people have to abandon their sociological status. Paul’s central focus in his preaching was that Gentiles do not have to become Jews any more than Jews have to become Gentiles, for as he went on to say, “If you are Christ’s, then you are Abraham’s offspring, heirs according to promise” (Gal. 3:29). Monotheism as seen in the faith of Abraham was the foundation of the Judeo-Christian faith Paul proclaimed, and God is thus the Father of all believers. This means that wherever God has a son or daughter, I have a brother or sister (Jew or Gentile, male or female). The impact of this truth can be nothing short of revolutionary in a world filled with religious division, if the teaching of Paul is accepted and applied with love to everyday life. It is my prayer that this book may make some contribution to the realization of that goal.
Numerous individuals, organizations, and foundations contributed to my travel and research from 1967 to the publication of my book Archaeology and the New Testament in 1991. These have been acknowledged in the preface to that volume, and my research continues to benefit from their generosity. Since that time other contributors have made possible my further travel and research on the life and times of Paul, and I owe a deep debt of gratitude to all who have assisted in this project. At the risk of overlooking some who have participated with me in various ways, I want to thank the following partners in this ministry: the faculty, staff, and administration of Wheaton College; Don Edwards; Rob McRay; Bering Drive Church of Christ in Houston, Texas; Wheaton Bible Church in Wheaton, Illinois; David Sveen and the Domanada Foundation in Wheaton; and the G. W. Aldeen Memorial Fund at Wheaton College. I am also grateful for the friendship and financial su