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Body - 2 Introduction (part 2)
Body - 2 Introduction (part 2)
by SPCK - Paula Gooder
Introduction (part 2) The aim of this book I should stress that this is not a new area of study. Paul’s attitude to the body and his use of soul, spirit and mind has been extensively explored over the years,7 but the debates and discussions among New Testament scholars have not, …
Body - Chapter 2 - Keeping body and soul together (part 2)
Body - Chapter 2 - Keeping body and soul together (part 2)
by SPCK - Paula Gooder
Keeping body and soul together (part 2) Death and the soul in the Old Testament A fascinating illustration of the importance of the body to the nephesh is the use of the word to refer to someone who has died recently. Numbers 6.6 forbids a Nazirite from going near a nephesh met (…
Body - Chapter 7 - Beautiful Bodies?
Body - Chapter 7 - Beautiful Bodies?
by SPCK - Paula Gooder
Beautiful bodies? We are now in the position to return to the place from which we began and, I hope, to see it in new light and from a fresh perspective. A position that assumes that Paul is opposed to bodies, that merges body and flesh together as though they are a single word, …
Body - Chapter 7 - Beautiful Bodies (part 2)
Body - Chapter 7 - Beautiful Bodies (part 2)
by SPCK - Paula Gooder
Beautiful bodies? (part 2) Two knotty issues Before we return in the next chapter to look in more detail at what Paul had to say about the body of Christ in 1 Corinthians 12, there are two issues that we need to pause over briefly. One is sex; the other is the mortification of th…
THE NEW TESTAMENT AND THE PEOPLE OF GOD - 5 Knowledge: Problems and Varieties
THE NEW TESTAMENT AND THE PEOPLE OF GOD - 5 Knowledge: Problems and Varieties
by SPCK - N T Wright
Knowledge: Problems and Varieties We have seen that the study of the New Testament involves three disciplines in particular: literature, history and theology. They are, as it were, among the armies that use the New Testament as a battleground…
THE NEW TESTAMENT AND THE PEOPLE OF GOD - 6 Stories, Worldviews and Knowledge
THE NEW TESTAMENT AND THE PEOPLE OF GOD - 6 Stories, Worldviews and Knowledge
by SPCK - N T Wright
Stories, Worldviews and Knowledge Stories are one of the most basic modes of human life. It is not the case that we perform random acts and then try to make sense of them; when people do that we say that they are drunk, or mad…
THE NEW TESTAMENT AND THE PEOPLE OF GOD - 9 ‘Is There Anybody There?’
THE NEW TESTAMENT AND THE PEOPLE OF GOD - 9 ‘Is There Anybody There?’
by SPCK - N T Wright
‘Is There Anybody There?’ We have already seen that, while naïve realism imagines itself to have direct access to the event or object spoken of in the text, a more phenomenalist reading realizes that it can only be sure of the author’s viewpoint. This is a less ambitious claim. I…
THE NEW TESTAMENT AND THE PEOPLE OF GOD - 10 Reading and Critical Realism
THE NEW TESTAMENT AND THE PEOPLE OF GOD - 10 Reading and Critical Realism
by SPCK - N T Wright
Reading and Critical Realism What we need, I suggest, is a critical-realist account of the phenomenon of reading, in all its parts. To one side we can see the positivist or the naïve realist, who move so smoothly along the line from reader to text to author to referent that they …
THE NEW TESTAMENT AND THE PEOPLE OF GOD - 20 From Event to Meaning
THE NEW TESTAMENT AND THE PEOPLE OF GOD - 20 From Event to Meaning
by SPCK - N T Wright
From Event to Meaning (i) Event and Intention History, then, is real knowledge, of a particular sort. It is arrived at, like all knowledge, by the spiral of epistemology, in which the story-telling human community launches enquiries, forms provisional judgments about which storie…
THE NEW TESTAMENT AND THE PEOPLE OF GOD - 27 Theology, Narrative and Authority
THE NEW TESTAMENT AND THE PEOPLE OF GOD - 27 Theology, Narrative and Authority
by SPCK - N T Wright
Theology, Narrative and Authority I shall now argue that the conception of the task, the way of reading the New Testament, for which I have been arguing in the last three chapters, enables us to do what pre-modern Christian readers assumed they could do without difficulty, and wh…
THE NEW TESTAMENT AND THE PEOPLE OF GOD - 28 THE SETTING AND THE STORY
THE NEW TESTAMENT AND THE PEOPLE OF GOD - 28 THE SETTING AND THE STORY
by SPCK - N T Wright
THE SETTING AND THE STORY We have no reason to think that Middle Eastern politics were any less complicated in the first century than in the twenty-first. On the contrary, there is every reason to suppose that there were just as many tensions, problems, anomalies and puzzles then…
THE NEW TESTAMENT AND THE PEOPLE OF GOD - 32 THE DEVELOPING DIVERSITY