The Origin of Paul's ReligionMachen, J. Gresham (John Gresham)
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The Origin of Paul's Religion
Machen, J. Gresham (John Gresham)
Bible. Epistles of Paul -- Theology; Paul, the Apostle, Saint
Jesus Christ:
historicity of, 5;
in what sense founder of the Gentile mission, 13-15;
Pauline conception of, 22;
deification of, according to modern liberalism, 22-24;
Messiahship of, according to the liberal hypothesis, 25;
consciousness of sonship, according to the liberal hypothesis, 25;
importance of, in the liberal explanation of the origin of
Paulinism, 25;
Messiahship of, according to Bousset, 29;
Lordship of, according to Bousset, 29f.;
divinity of, disputed by no one in the Apostolic Age, 129-137;
knowledge of, according to Paul, 142-144;
words of, in Pauline Epistles, 147-149;
details of the life of, known to Paul, 149f.;
character of, appreciated by Paul, 150f.;
comparison of, with Paul, 153-169;
presented Himself as Messiah, 155-158;
personal affinity of, with Paul, 165;
regarded by Paul as a Redeemer, not as a mere teacher, 167-169
Jesus Christ, the liberal account of:
attested by none of the sources, 155;
involves psychological contradiction, 155-158;
cannot explain the origin of the belief in the divine Redeemer,
158f.
John, 98, went to Ephesus, 128
Jones, Maurice, 81
Josephus, 79, 177, 183
Judæa, Churches of, 50-52, 75f.
Judaism:
missionary activity of, 9-11;
prepared for Pauline mission, 10f.;
did not produce Christian universalism, 11-13;
had no doctrine of the vicarious death of the Messiah, 65, 196ff.;
divisions within, 175-177;
did not serve as medium for pagan influence upon Paul, 255f.
Judaism, rabbinical, 176
Judas, 140
Judaizers, the, 19, 86, 98, 121, 125f., 128, 131, 135, 278:
activity of, subsided during the third missionary journey, 104,
107;
did not dispute Paul's doctrine of the person of Christ, 129-137
Judgment, teaching about, both in Jesus and in Paul, 164
Justification, Pauline idea of:
can find no analogy in Hermes Trismegistus, 277;
importance of, in Paul's thinking, 277-279;
not produced merely as weapon against the Judaizers, 278f.;
intimately connected with the doctrine of the new creation, 279
Justin Martyr, 185, 196, 236, 273, 281
Juvenal, 227
Kabeiri, the, 219
Kennedy, H. A. A., 118, 233, 262, 281
Kingdom of God, same teaching about, in Jesus and in Paul, 160f.
Knowling, 104, 109, 147, 299
Koiné, the, 220
Krenkel, 44f., 59
Kroll, J., 242, 244, 249, 269
Kroll, W., 242, 245
Kykeon, the, 218, 281
Laborers in the vineyard, parable of the, 164
Lake, Kirsopp, 12f., 81f., 89, 98
Lake and Jackson, 186
Law, the ceremonial, attitude of Jesus toward, 14f.
Law, the Mosaic:
function of, according to Paul, 18;
attitude of the early Jerusalem Church toward, 19;
observance of, by Jewish Christians, 92f., 101f.;
Jewish Christians zealous for, 110;
added to, by the Jews, 178;
Paul's early zeal for, 256
Legalism, Jewish, 178-181
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