Perspectives old and new on Paul : the "Lutheran" Paul and his critics /

Westerholm, Stephen, 1949-

Perspectives old and new on Paul : the "Lutheran" Paul and his critics / Stephen Westerholm. - Grand Rapids, Mich. : Eerdmans, c2004. - xix, 488 p. ; 24 cm.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 446-471) and indexes.

Portraits of the "Lutheran" Paul -- Augustine -- Martin Luther -- John Calvin -- John Wesley -- A portrait of the "Lutheran" Paul -- Twentieth-century responses to the "Lutheran" Paul -- Paul's "Polemical Doctrine": Wrede and Schweitzer -- The faith of Paul's fathers: Montefiore, Schoeps, and Sanders -- Paul's robust conscience: K??�?mmel and Stendahl -- The "righteousness of the law": Bultmann, Wilckens, and Sanders -- The "Hobgoblin" of consistency: Drane, H??�?bner, and Ri��?�sn��?�en -- Saint Paul against the Lutherans: Wright, Dunn, and Donaldson -- "Lutheran: responses -- Other perspectives -- The quotable anti-"Lutheran" Paul -- The Historical and the "Lutheran" Paul -- Matters of definition, 1. "Righteousness" in Paul -- Matters of definition, 2: The "Law" in Paul -- Matters of definition, 3: Grace in Sanders's Judaism -- "Justification by faith" in Paul's thought: the evidence in review -- The law in God's scheme -- Grace abounding to sinners or erasing ethnic boundaries?

0802848095 (pbk. : alk. paper)

2003064214


Bible.--Epistles of Paul--Criticism, interpretation, etc.--History.
Bible.--Epistles of Paul--Theology


Lutheran Church--Doctrines.

BS 2651 / .W46 2004