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
118 Otto Pfleiderer, _Das Urchristentum, seine Schriften und Lehren,_
2nd ed., 1902, vol. i. 696 pp. On Paul, pp. 24-335. (Eng. trans.
“Primitive Christianity,” vol. i. pp. 33-471.)
119 On this point Pfleiderer follows suggestions given by Teichmann in
his work, _Die paulinischen Vorstellungen von Auferstehung und
Gericht_ (“The Pauline Conceptions of Resurrection and Judgment”),
1896, 125 pp. As a matter of fact he cannot any more than his
predecessors give any proof of this evolution.
120 Paul Wernle, _Die Anfänge unserer Religion,_ 1st ed., 1901, 410
pp. On Paul, pp. 95-220. By the same author, _Paulus als
Heidenmissionar_ (“Paul as a Missionary to the Gentiles”), Lecture,
1899, 36 pp. Heinrich Weinel, _Paulus,_ 1904, 316 pp. The book grew
out of essays which the author published in the _Christliche Welt._ By
the same author, _Paulus als kirchlicher Organisator._ (Inaugural
Lecture.) 1899, 30 pp.
Other works from this popular literature are: Adolf Harnack, _Das
Wesen des Christentums,_ 1900, 189 pp. On Paul, pp. 110-118. Georg
Hollmann, _Urchristentum in Corinth,_ 1903, 32 pp. Paul Feine, _Paulus
als Theologe,_ 1906, 80 pp. Carl Munzinger, _Paulus in Corinth. Neue
Wege zum Verständnis des Urchristentums_ (“Paul in Corinth. New Ways
of arriving at an Understanding of Early Christianity.”) 1908, 208 pp.
The author pictures the work of the Apostle in the Greek city in the
light of analogies offered by modern missionary practice. Whether the
new way really leads to a better understanding of primitive
Christianity remains open to question.
As a special investigation of a point of detail at this date we may
mention Karl Dick’s work, _Der schriftstellerische Plural bei Paulus_
(“The Author’s ‘We’ in Paul’s Writings.”) 1900, 169 pp. There are not
many of these studies at this period since the tendency among
theologians has been more to popularisation than to scientific
research.
121 _Paulus als Heidenmissionar,_ p. 36. Ernst von Dobschütz calls
attention to the dangers of this method, which easily becomes
unscientific in _Probleme des apostolischen Zeitalters._ (Five
Lectures, 1904, 138 pp. See p. 61.) Paul Feine, _Das gesetzesfreie
Evangelium des Paulus nach seinem Werdegange dargestellt,_ 1899, 232
pp. _Jesus Christus und Paulus,_ 1902, 309 pp. Arthur Titius, _Der
Paulinismus unter dem Gesichtspunkt der Seligkeit_ (2nd Part of the
work _Die neutestamentliche Lehre von der Seligkeit und ihre Bedeutung
für die Gegenwart_—“The New Testament Doctrine of Final Blessedness
and its Significance for the present Time”), 1900, 290 pp. A.
Schlatter, in his _NTle. Theologie_ (Pt. ii. The doctrine of the
Apostles, 1910, 592 pp. On Paul, 199-407), follows a conservative
biblico-theological method like that of B. Weiss.
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