Paul and the new perspective : second thoughts on The origin of Paul's gospel

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1. Paul's Conversion/Call, James D.G. Dunn, and the New Perspective on Paul 1 -- Dunn's Interpretation 2 -- Dunn's Critique of My Thesis 4 -- Only an Apostolic Call for the Gentiles? 7 -- Christological Component Not Essential? 13 -- Crucified Christ Only for the Gentiles? 20 -- Problem of the Law 22 -- Excursus: Terence L. Donaldson's Theory 35 -- What Gospel Did Paul Preach before the Antiochian and Galatian Controversies? 45 -- Doctrine of Justification Developed Only for the Gentile Mission? 53 -- "Works of the Law" 57 -- Antithesis between Faith in Christ and "Works of the Law" 60 -- Forensic and Ethical Dimensions of Justification 66 -- Problem of the Law and Liberation from It 70 -- "My/Their Own Righteousness" 75 -- 2. Justification by Grace and through Faith in 1 Thessalonians 85 -- No Doctrine of Justification in 1 Thessalonians? 85 -- Salvation as Deliverance from the Wrath of God through Christ's Atoning Death 86 -- God's Sovereign Initiative and Grace 88 -- Not by Works of the Law but by the Holy Spirit 88 -- Paul's Initial Preaching (1:9b-10) 90 -- By Faith Alone 96 -- Absence of the Terminology "Righteousness/Justification" 97 -- Conclusion and Corollaries 98 -- Appendix Justification in the Corinthian Correspondence 99 -- 3. Isaiah 42 and Paul's Call 101 -- God "Was Pleased ([characters not reproducible]) ..." 102 -- God's "Call" to Be "a Light to the Gentiles" 103 -- "I Immediately Went Away to Arabia" 103 -- "Chosen" and "Set Apart" 104 -- "The Old Things" and "The New Things" 106 -- To Preach the Gospel of God's Saving Judgment or His Righteousness 106 -- Hope of the Gentiles 109 -- Unfaltering and Undaunted, to the Ends of the Earth 109 -- "A Covenant to the People" 110 -- "I Will Put My Spirit on Him" 115 -- Hardening of Israel 123 -- 4. Paul, the Spirit, and the Law 128 -- Galatians 3:10-14 as a Test Case 128 -- Challenges of the New Perspective 130 -- Theory of the Continuing Exile 136 -- No Alternative to the Traditional Interpretation 141 -- Judaism of Paul's Day 143 -- Revelation of God's Righteousness in the Crucified Christ 152 -- Flesh/Law-Spirit Antithesis 154 -- Origin of the Flesh/Law-Spirit Antithesis 155 -- Paul's Experience of the Holy Spirit at His Conversion/Call and Its Impact on His Theology 157 -- 5. Christ, the Image of God and the Last Adam 165 -- Summary of My Thesis 165 -- Recent Research on the Tradition-History of the Theophany Vision of Ezekiel 1 174 -- Contra James D.G. Dunn Again 176 -- Alan F. Segal 184 -- Origin of Adam-Christology 192 -- "Son of Man" Christology Hidden 194 -- Christ, the Last Adam, and the Wisdom of God 208 -- 6. 2 Corinthians 5:11-21 and the Origin of Paul's Concept of Reconciliation 214 -- Linguistic Background 215 -- Uniquely Pauline Terminology within the New Testament 216 -- Various Suggestions about Its Origin 218 -- 2 Corinthians 5:11-21 220 -- Conclusion: Origin and Development of the Doctrine of Reconciliation 236 -- 7. "Mystery" of Romans 11:25-26 Once More 239 -- My Original Thesis in Brief 239 -- From Scriptural Exegesis Alone? 242 -- Damascus Revelation and Call 247 -- For an Early Dating 250 -- Paul's Visit with Peter the Terminus ad Quem? 253 -- 8. Jesus Tradition in Paul 259 -- Certain or Probable References 259 -- Possible Echoes 270 -- Continuity/Similarity in Theology and Attitude 275 -- Theological Loci and Sayings of Jesus 279 -- Narrative Tradition 281 -- Paucity and Allusive Character of References 284.