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A Man in Christ
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Table of Contents
CHAPTER I: PAUL OR PAULlNISM ?
Paul and Paulinism : a distinction
I.
Paul's religion not to be systematized
The subject-matter of his teaching
The nature of the situation addressed
Paul's view of his vocation
Paul's Gospel and so-called "plans of salvation"
Mistaken efforts to isolate the elements of Christian experience
Paul seen through the eyes of later generations
Two notes of warning
Necessity of spiritual kinship with the apostle
II.
Two reactions from scholastic interpretations
Proposal to eliminate everything Pauline from the Gospel
Was Paul a theologian?
The reflective element in his nature
Experience primary, reflection secondary
Romans not a "compendium of doctrine"
Absence of precise definition in Paul's terminology
No "systems" of eschatology or ethics
Paul's inner consistency
"This one thing I do"
CHAPTER II: HERITAGE AND ENVIRONMENT
The double strain in Christianity, and in Paul
I.
Paul's pride in his Jewish birth
The New Testament picture of Pharisaism
The pupil of Gamaliel
Monotheism and righteousness
The allegorical interpretation of Scripture
Paul's Old Testament quotations
Root-conceptions of apocalyptic literature
Paul bound to no apocalyptic scheme
II.
The dispersion of the Jews
How Diaspora Judaism maintained its identity
The missionary spirit of the Jew abroad
Hellenistic reactions on Judaism
III.
Itinerant Stoic preachers
Resemblances of style, language, and idea between Paul and the Stoics
No doctrine of grace in Stoicism
Further differences
Stoicism a religion of despair
IV.
The "religious-historical school" and the mystery religions
Refusal of the early Church to compromise with paganism
Relation of this refusal to the great persecutions
The originality of Christianity
General aim of the mysteries
The cults of Cybele and Isis
Paul's contacts with the cults
Was Paul versed in Hellenistic literature?
The Old Testament, not the mysteries, Paul's source
Paul a creative spirit
Paul's Gospel distinguished from Hellenism by its ethical insistence
And by its emphasis on faith
CHAPTER III: DISILLUSIONMENT AND DISCOVERY
The glory of the conversion experience
The background of frustration and defeat
I.
Disappointment and unhappiness
The legalist spirit in modern religion
A religion of redemption by human effort
The mercenary spirit in religion
A religion of negatives
Is Paul's picture of Jewish legalism correct?
The soul-destroying burden of tradition
Four attitudes to the law
The bitterness of Paul's personal problem
The power of the flesh
II.
Does Romans 7 refer to the pre-conversion period?
Is it autobiographical?
Paul's sharing of his inmost experience
The meaning of "flesh"
Paul's view of sin as personal
The origin of sin
The seriousness of sin
The misery of the divided self
III.
The element of nobility in the law
The law powerless to save
The law revealing sin
The law instigating to sin
The law a temporary expedient
The law a schoolmaster to lead to Christ
The law destined to pass away
IV.
Paul's "goads." Recognition of the failure of Judaism
The fact of the historic Jesus
The lives of the Christians
The death of Stephen
The conversion an act of supernatural grace
The Vision and the Voice
Is Paul's experience normative for other Christians?
V.
Decisive results of the Damascus experience
Discovery of Jesus as alive
The Resurrection God's vindication of His Son
Death and resurrection not to be isolated
Paul's attitude to the cross revolutionized
The Man's Self-surrender to the love of God
The vision of a waiting world
Paul and Isaiah
The spiritual basis of the doctrine of election
The endless amazement of redemption
CHAPTER IV: MYSTICISM AND MORALITY
Union with Christ the heart of Paul's religion
I.
The importance of this conception too long ignored
Growing recognition to-day of its centrality
Safeguarding the doctrine of atonement
Examination of Paul's watchword "in Christ"
The cognate phrase "in the Spirit"
The mystical idea not to be thinned down
II.
Widespread dislike of mysticism
Varieties of mystical experience
Every true Christian in some degree a mystic
"Acting" and "reacting" mysticism
"Mystical" and "moral" union
The analogy of human love
Union with Christ not pantheistic absorption
Christianity more than the example of Jesus
Union with Christ and union with God
III.
"Grace" and "Faith"
The Old Testament doctrine of faith
The teaching of Jesus on faith
Varieties of Pauline usage
Conviction of the unseen
Confidence in the promises of God
Conviction of the facts of the Gospel
Faith as synonymous with Christianity
Faith as self-abandonment to God in Christ
The germ of this in the Synoptic Gospels
"Believing in Christ" and "loving Christ"
IV.
Union with Christ in His death
The trumpet-note of Romans 6
Union with Christ in His burial
Union with Christ in His resurrection
The life of Christ in the believer
Union with Christ the sheet-anchor of Paul's ethics
The charge of antinomianism
Identification with Christ's attitude to sin
A moral motive and a moral dynamic
The good fight of faith
The eschatological aspect of Paul's Christ-mysticism
Paul and John on "eternal life"
CHAPTER V: RECONCILIATION AND JUSTIFICATION
Peace with God the supreme good
I.
Man made for fellowship with God
This fellowship disturbed by sin
The experience of alienation
Who has to be reconciled-man or God?
Christianity here different from other religions
Paul's use of the term "enemies"
His doctrine of "propitiation"
His teaching on the "wrath of God"
God the Reconciler, man the reconciled
The divine initiative
Reconciliation to life
Reconciliation to the brethren
II.
Reconciliation and the cross
The death not to be isolated from the resurrection
The meaning of the cross not to be reduced to any formula
Primitive Christian teaching on the death of Christ
Man's most flagrant crime
The divine purpose at Calvary
The cross and the forgiveness of sins
Paul's advance beyond the primitive position
The cross as the supreme condemnation of sin
The judgment of God
The cross as the supreme revelation of love
The death of Christ as a "sacrifice"
The cost to God of man's forgiveness
The cross as the gift of salvation
Christ our Substitute and our Representative
III.
Paul's greatest paradox
Permanent validity of the idea of justification
The Old Testament conception of righteousness
Righteousness in Paul's epistles
The verdict of "Not guilty"
Ideas of merit excluded
The teaching of Jesus on justification
Adoption and sonship of God
Justification not a "legal fiction" 255
Organic connection between justification and sanctification
IV.
The eschatological element in Paul not to be exaggerated
But "hope" prominent throughout his writings
Relation to Synoptic eschatology
Paul's spiritual growth and its significance
The problem of the body
The fact of death
Present struggle and future victory
The resurrection of believers
The day of judgment
The return of the Lord
CHAPTER VI: HISTORIC JESUS AND EXALTED CHRIST
Paul immeasurably Christ's debtor
I.
Paul's alleged transformation of the original Gospel
His claim to independence
Had Paul seen Jesus in the flesh?
Paul acquainted with the historic facts
The subject-matter of the apostolic preaching
Christ as a present reality
Christ as a historic Person
II.
Paul's knowledge of the Jesus of history
References in the epistles to the life of Jesus
References to the character of Jesus
References to the teaching of Jesus
Direct citations and indirect reminiscences
Paul's fundamental positions a legacy from Jesus
Jesus' attitude to the law
Jesus' message of the Kingdom of God
Christology in the Gospels, in Acts, and in the epistles
III.
A redeemed man's final estimate of his Redeemer
Jesus as Messiah
Jesus as Lord
Jesus as Son of God
The Son subordinate to the Father
Jesus on the divine side of reality
Relation of Christ and the Spirit
History of the doctrine of the Spirit
Christ and the Spirit inseparable, but not identical
Christ as the origin and goal of creation
Relevance of this to modern problems
The religious value of the idea of pre-existence
Alpha and Omega
The deathless optimism of the Christian faith
I. INDEX OF SUBJECTS
II. INDEX OF AUTHORS
III. SCRIPTURE PASSAGES
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