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Meeting God in Paul - 1c Paul the man
Meeting God in Paul - 1c Paul the man
by SPCK - Rowan Williams
Paul the man But what of Paul himself? What kind of a person was he? So far we’ve been sketching out the whole environment, leaving in the middle of it all a human-sized shadow. What kind of man? What age? What do we know of his personal life?…
Meeting God in Paul - 1b Paul the Jew
Meeting God in Paul - 1b Paul the Jew
by SPCK - Rowan Williams
Paul the Jew Paul is a Roman citizen – but he also, of course, inherited another very stratified and very strict tradition. He is a Jew: a Jew whose name was originally Saul, and who, he tells us, came initially from the tribe of Benjamin (Philippians 3.5). He belongs to that hug…
Meeting God in Paul - 3b The image of God in us
Meeting God in Paul - 3b The image of God in us
by SPCK - Rowan Williams
The image of God in us But there’s more to it, because of course what St Paul is evoking is not a Jesus who simply sits on the throne of heaven and receives our prayers, but a Jesus who – because his own life in time and eternity consists entirely in pouring out praise and love t…
Meeting God in Paul - 3 The new creation: Paul’s Christian universe
Meeting God in Paul - 3 The new creation: Paul’s Christian universe
by SPCK - Rowan Williams
The new creation: Paul’s Christian universe Let’s begin with that deceptively simple phrase ‘the image of God’ – because in trying to understand how, for Paul, the whole universe is reorganized around the figure of Jesus, this idea is central…
Meeting God in Paul - 2d The healing sacrifice
Meeting God in Paul - 2d The healing sacrifice
by SPCK - Rowan Williams
The healing sacrifice I spoke in the previous chapter of how in his letter to the Romans Paul is, as it were, turning his head from side to side, saying, ‘You think you’ve got the point? Think again. And [turning rapidly] don’t you imagine that because they haven’t got it, you’re…
Meeting God in Paul - 2c A different kind of community
Meeting God in Paul - 2c A different kind of community
by SPCK - Rowan Williams
A different kind of community ‘Freedom’ and ‘slavery’ are words that Paul weaves into ever more complex patterns. But behind it all is this conviction that there is a space where we can ‘look each other in the eye’ with both boldness and reverence, knowing that what we see in the…
The Minister as Entrepreneur - Introduction: Why ‘entrepreneur’?
The Minister as Entrepreneur - Introduction: Why ‘entrepreneur’?
by SPCK - Rowan Williams
Introduction: Why ‘entrepreneur’? I am a Christian minister. I am also an entrepreneur. Being an entrepreneur has rarely made me any money and in the context of this book, that is precisely the point. Here I shall instead be using the term ‘entrepreneur’ to refer to a way of bein…
Meeting God in Paul - 4 Questions for reflection or group discussion and Lenten reading guide
Meeting God in Paul - 4 Questions for reflection or group discussion and Lenten reading guide
by SPCK - Rowan Williams
Questions for reflection or group discussion and Lenten reading guide 1 Outsiders and insiders: Paul’s social world 1 Who are our modern-day ‘citizens’ (those with full rights and status), ‘outsiders’ (those who ‘half-belong’ in our society) and ‘slaves’ (those with few rights)?…
Meeting God in Paul - 3c Living in the new creation
Meeting God in Paul - 3c Living in the new creation
by SPCK - Rowan Williams
Living in the new creation In 2 Corinthians 5.17, Paul says that to be baptized in commitment to Jesus is to become or to be involved in a ‘new creation’. Everything is beginning again because the real universe (as distinct from the fantasy world of our fear, selfishness, greed, …
the historical character of Jesus - 1b Sources for the study of Jesus
the historical character of Jesus - 1b Sources for the study of Jesus
by SPCK - David Allen
Sources for the study of Jesus At the outset of our discussion, though, it is probably worth establishing the purpose or value of an exercise such as this. After all, books on Jesus abound, not perhaps to the scale alluded to in John 21.25, but to a significant extent nonetheless…
the historical character of Jesus - 1 Introduction: locating Jesus outside the Gospels
the historical character of Jesus - 1 Introduction: locating Jesus outside the Gospels
by SPCK - David Allen
Introduction: locating Jesus outside the Gospels It does not take much exposure to Gospels studies, or to biblical scholarship more generally, before one encounters the term ‘historical Jesus’…
the historical character of Jesus - 1c Portraits of Jesus
the historical character of Jesus - 1c Portraits of Jesus
by SPCK - David Allen
Portraits of Jesus If, then, the non-Gospel material does have something useful to contribute to studies of Jesus, how might we go about using them? Our approach in this book will be to try and answer two distinct but related questions…
the historical character of Jesus - 2b The ‘earthly Jesus’ as character in Acts
the historical character of Jesus - 2b The ‘earthly Jesus’ as character in Acts
by SPCK - David Allen
“The witnessed one”: Jesus in Acts Whatever one’s reason for so doing, the task of engaging with the book of Acts is fraught with interpretative questions. The discourse has two distinct textual traditions – the so-called Western and Alexandrian versions, with not insignificant v…
the historical character of Jesus - 2c The life of Jesus in Acts