Rethinking Paul (Current Issues in Theology, Series Number 17)

Van Driel, Edwin Chr.

ISBN 10: 1108742599 / ISBN 13: 9781108742597

Published by Cambridge University Press, 2023

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Rethinking Paul (Current Issues in Theology, Series Number 17)
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Publication Date: 2023
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1108742599
• ISBN 13: 9781108742597
• Binding: Soft cover
• Condition: New

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Synopsis

In this book, Edwin van Driel analyzes contemporary Pauline exegesis and its implications for Protestant theology. Over the last several decades, scholars have offered fresh interpretations of the apostle, including the New Perspective on and the apocalyptic reading of Paul. Van Driel juxtaposes these proposals with traditional Protestant understandings of Paul and argues that the crucial difference between these two readings lies not in how one understands isolated Pauline notions but in different assumed narrative substructures of the apostle's writings. He explores how these new exegetical proposals deepen, broaden, enrich, and challenge traditional Protestant theological paradigms, as well as how they are situated alongside current contextual conversations on theological anthropology, social imagination, and the church's mission. Van Driel's volume opens up new avenues for interdisciplinary exploration and cooperation between biblical scholarship and theology.

About the Author

Edwin Chr. van Driel is the Directors' Bicentennial Professor of Theology at Pittsburgh Theological Seminary. He is the author of Incarnation Anyway: Arguments for Supralapsarian Christology (2008) and edited What Is Jesus Doing? God's Activity in the Life and Work of the Church ( 2020).