Paul and his interpreters : $b A critical historySchweitzer, Albert
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Paul and his interpreters : $b A critical history
Schweitzer, Albert
Bible. Epistles of Paul -- Criticism, interpretation, etc. -- History; Paul, the Apostle, Saint
From the German literature we may cite G. Heinrici, _Die Forschungen
über die paulinischen Briefe: ihr gegenwärtiger Stand und ihre
Aufgaben_ (“The Study of the Pauline Letters; its present Position,
and Task”). Lectures given before the theological conference at
Giessen, 1886, pp. 69-120. Wilhelm Brückner, _Die chronologische
Reihenfolge, in welcher die Briefe des Neuen Testaments verfasst sind_
(“The Chronological Order in which the Epistles of the New Testament
were written”), 1890, 306 pp. (An essay which received the prize
offered for the treatment of this question by the Teylerian Society of
Haarlem.) “On the Chronological Order of the Four main Epistles, pp.
174-203. Carl Clemen, _Die Chronologie der paulinischen Briefe,_ 1893,
292 pp. By the same writer, _Die Einheitlichkeit der paulinischen
Briefe_ (“The Integrity of the Pauline Epistles”), 1894, 183 pp.
In these writings Clemen makes some concessions to the Ultra-Tübingen
critics. Thus, for example, he is prepared to put Galatians after
Romans and Corinthians. The mediating views here offered, though
sometimes interesting, need nevertheless no longer occupy us, as
Clemen has in the meantime completely recovered his confidence and has
contradicted himself. In the first volume of his _Paulus_ (1904, 416
pp., examination of the sources) he pronounces that the four main
epistles are to be regarded as entirely genuine, if only we may divide
the second Epistle to the Corinthians into four. In addition to I
Thessalonians and Philippians, even Colossians and 2 Thessalonians are
to be regarded as from the Apostle’s pen.
In the preface the author begs that he may not be held accountable for
his views prior to his Damascus.
The second volume of the work, _Paulus. Sein Leben und Werken,_ 1904,
339 pp., is in biographical form, and does not enter further into the
problems of the doctrine.
A writer who takes the “Ultra-Tübingen” side is J. Friedrich
(Maehliss). In his work entitled _Die Unechtheit des Galaterbriefs_
(“The Spuriousness of Galatians”), 1891, 67 pp., he defends both the
rights of radical criticism and of a “simplified orthography.”
104 See p. 128, _sup_.
105 See p. 128, _sup_.
106 See p. 129, _sup_.
107 See pp. 114 and 115 of the work cited above, p. 134.
108 Christian Hermann Weisse, _Philosophische Dogmatik oder
Philosophie des Christentums,_ 3 vols., 1855, 60, 62; vol. i., 712 pp.
On the Pauline Epistles, pp. 144-147.
109 On Romans see also vol. iii. of the _Philosophische Dogmatik_
(1862, 736 pp.), pp. 263, 264.
The Epistle to the Ephesians, the Second to the Corinthians, and the
First to Timothy, Weisse holds to be “entirely unapostolic”; in the
Epistle to Titus and the Second to Timothy he is prepared to recognise
as a possibility the genuineness of the personal notices.
110 In 2 Corinthians, which shows no evidence of interpolation, three
different letters to this church are worked up together.
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