| 6 years ago :: Nov 01, 2007 - 7:39PM #1 | |
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I recently started a discussion group here on B'Net to talk about the New Perspective on Paul. If you don't know anything about the New Perspective, go to http://www.thepaulpage.com and check it out. When you're done, come join my discussion group at http://community.beliefnet.com/paulperspective :D
Be warned, one of the primary claims of the New Perspective is that Luther was wrong. |
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| 6 years ago :: Nov 01, 2007 - 7:42PM #2 | |
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Sorry, but that link doesn't work.
Dusty |
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| 6 years ago :: Nov 01, 2007 - 7:48PM #3 | |
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Yeah, the page seems to be down. The link is right. The page is just gone. I've got a short summary posted in the discussion page in the group, but you might get more out of http://www.ntwrightpage.com/Wright_New_Perspectives.htm
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| 6 years ago :: Nov 03, 2007 - 11:53PM #4 | |
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I have done some reading on it and we can always learn more. One can not look at Paul the same way over the years or so it would seem for me a least.
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| 6 years ago :: Nov 04, 2007 - 6:01AM #5 | |
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Thanks for the heads up! I'm giving it a go .... :) ... but don't promise to agree ... ;)
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| 6 years ago :: Nov 16, 2007 - 11:37AM #6 | |
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One of the comments made brought to mind a practical and functional aspect to Paul's doctrine, if you want to ensure that the church remains a gentile church, you have to have a mechanism that distances one institution from the other,
In order words, you don't achieve it by attacking the other institution, you just make sure that your institution operates under another set of rules, both inclusive and exclusive. Inclusive because he had to base the church's doctrine on the universal aspects of God's revealtion. Exclusive because he had to make sure that the Church could operate as a gentile institution, otherwise it would never have survived. The price to be paid was the almost complete disappearance of the Messianic church, something he had to be aware of, something you can argue as something he tried to avoid throughout his body of work. |
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