An edition of A Man in Christ (1935)

A Man in Christ

by

  • 0 Ratings
  • 1 Want to read
  • 0 Currently reading
  • 0 Have read
Cover of: A Man in Christ by
Not in Library

My Reading Lists:

Create a new list

Check-In

×Close
Add an optional check-in date. Check-in dates are used to track yearly reading goals.
Today
Notes
  • 0 Ratings
  • 1 Want to read
  • 0 Currently reading
  • 0 Have read
Notes

Buy this book

Last edited by dprlife
October 21, 2015 | History
Edit
An edition of A Man in Christ (1935)

A Man in Christ

by

  • 0 Ratings
  • 1 Want to read
  • 0 Currently reading
  • 0 Have read

This edition doesn't have a description yet. Can you add one?

Publish Date
Publisher
Harper And Brothers
Language
English
Pages
332

Buy this book

Previews available in: English

Showing 7 featured editions. View all 7 editions?

Edition Availability
Cover of: Man in Christ
Man in Christ: the Vital Elements of St. Paul's Religion
2024, Porirua Publishing
in English
Libraries near you: WorldCat
Cover of: A Man in Christ
A Man in Christ: The Vital Elements of St. Paul's Religion
Jun 14, 2019, Lulu.com
hardcover
Libraries near you: WorldCat
Cover of: A Man in Christ
A Man in Christ: The Vital Elements of St. Paul's Religion
Jun 14, 2019, Lulu.com, lulu.com
paperback
Libraries near you: WorldCat
Cover of: A Man in Christ
A Man in Christ: The Vital Elements Of St. Paul's Religion
January 2002, Regent College Publishing
Paperback in English
Libraries near you: WorldCat
Cover of: A man in Christ
A man in Christ: The vital elements of St. Paul's religion
1975, Baker Book House
Paperback in English
Libraries near you: WorldCat
Cover of: Man in Christ
Man in Christ
1974, Hodder&Stoughton Ltd
Paperback
Libraries near you: WorldCat
Cover of: A Man in Christ
A Man in Christ
1935, Harper And Brothers
Hardcover in English
  • Not in Library

Add another edition?

Book Details

Table of Contents

CHAPTER I: PAUL OR PAULlNISM ?
Paul and Paulinism : a distinction Page I
I.
Paul's religion not to be systematized Page 3
The subject-matter of his teaching Page 3
The nature of the situation addressed Page 4
Paul's view of his vocation Page 7
Paul's Gospel and so-called "plans of salvation" Page 9
Mistaken efforts to isolate the elements of Christian experience Page I I
Paul seen through the eyes of later generations Page 12
Two notes of warning Page 13
Necessity of spiritual kinship with the apostle Page 16
II.
Two reactions from scholastic interpretations Page 17
Proposal to eliminate everything Pauline from the Gospel Page 17
Was Paul a theologian? Page 20
The reflective element in his nature Page 21
Experience primary, reflection secondary Page 24
Romans not a "compendium of doctrine" Page 25
Absence of precise definition in Paul's terminology Page 26
No "systems" of eschatology or ethics Page 27
Paul's inner consistency Page 28
"This one thing I do" Page 30
CHAPTER II: HERITAGE AND ENVIRONMENT
The double strain in Christianity, and in Paul Page 32
I.
Paul's pride in his Jewish birth Page 33
The New Testament picture of Pharisaism Page 36
The pupil of Gamaliel Page 37
Monotheism and righteousness Page 39
The allegorical interpretation of Scripture Page 41
Paul's Old Testament quotations Page 43
Root-conceptions of apocalyptic literature Page 45
Paul bound to no apocalyptic scheme Page 47
II.
The dispersion of the Jews Page 48
How Diaspora Judaism maintained its identity Page 5I
The missionary spirit of the Jew abroad Page 52
Hellenistic reactions on Judaism Page 54
III.
Itinerant Stoic preachers Page 56
Resemblances of style, language, and idea between Paul and the Stoics Page 57
No doctrine of grace in Stoicism Page 60
Further differences Page 61
Stoicism a religion of despair Page 63
IV.
The "religious-historical school" and the mystery religions Page 64
Refusal of the early Church to compromise with paganism Page 66
Relation of this refusal to the great persecutions Page 66
The originality of Christianity Page 67
General aim of the mysteries Page 68
The cults of Cybele and Isis Page 69
Paul's contacts with the cults Page 71
Was Paul versed in Hellenistic literature? Page 72
The Old Testament, not the mysteries, Paul's source Page 73
Paul a creative spirit Page 75
Paul's Gospel distinguished from Hellenism by its ethical insistence Page 76
And by its emphasis on faith Page 77
CHAPTER III: DISILLUSIONMENT AND DISCOVERY
The glory of the conversion experience Page 81
The background of frustration and defeat Page 82
I.
Disappointment and unhappiness Page 83
The legalist spirit in modern religion Page 84
A religion of redemption by human effort Page 85
The mercenary spirit in religion Page 86
A religion of negatives Page 87
Is Paul's picture of Jewish legalism correct? Page 88
The soul-destroying burden of tradition Page 90
Four attitudes to the law Page 92
The bitterness of Paul's personal problem Page 96
The power of the flesh Page 98
II.
Does Romans 7 refer to the pre-conversion period? Page 99
Is it autobiographical? Page 101
Paul's sharing of his inmost experience Page 102
The meaning of "flesh" Page 103
Paul's view of sin as personal Page 104
The origin of sin Page 106
The seriousness of sin Page 106
The misery of the divided self Page 107
III.
The element of nobility in the law Page 108
The law powerless to save Page 110
The law revealing sin Page 112
The law instigating to sin Page 112
The law a temporary expedient Page 113
The law a schoolmaster to lead to Christ Page 115
The law destined to pass away Page 116
IV.
Paul's "goads." Recognition of the failure of Judaism Page 119
The fact of the historic Jesus Page 120
The lives of the Christians Page 121
The death of Stephen Page 121
The conversion an act of supernatural grace Page 122
The Vision and the Voice Page 124
Is Paul's experience normative for other Christians? Page 127
V.
Decisive results of the Damascus experience Page 132
Discovery of Jesus as alive Page 133
The Resurrection God's vindication of His Son Page 134
Death and resurrection not to be isolated Page 135
Paul's attitude to the cross revolutionized Page 138
The Man's Self-surrender to the love of God Page 140
The vision of a waiting world Page 141
Paul and Isaiah Page 142
The spiritual basis of the doctrine of election Page 143
The endless amazement of redemption Page 145
CHAPTER IV: MYSTICISM AND MORALITY
Union with Christ the heart of Paul's religion Page 147
I.
The importance of this conception too long ignored Page 148
Growing recognition to-day of its centrality Page 150
Safeguarding the doctrine of atonement Page 152
Examination of Paul's watchword "in Christ" Page 154
The cognate phrase "in the Spirit" Page 156
The mystical idea not to be thinned down Page 158
II.
Widespread dislike of mysticism Page 160
Varieties of mystical experience Page 161
Every true Christian in some degree a mystic Page 162
"Acting" and "reacting" mysticism Page 163
"Mystical" and "moral" union Page 164
The analogy of human love Page 165
Union with Christ not pantheistic absorption Page 166
Christianity more than the example of Jesus Page 168
Union with Christ and union with God Page 170
III.
"Grace" and "Faith" Page 173
The Old Testament doctrine of faith Page 174
The teaching of Jesus on faith Page 176
Varieties of Pauline usage Page 177
Conviction of the unseen Page 178
Confidence in the promises of God Page 178
Conviction of the facts of the Gospel Page 179
Faith as synonymous with Christianity Page 181
Faith as self-abandonment to God in Christ Page 182
The germ of this in the Synoptic Gospels Page 184
"Believing in Christ" and "loving Christ" Page 185
IV.
Union with Christ in His death Page 186
The trumpet-note of Romans 6 Page 187
Union with Christ in His burial Page 191
Union with Christ in His resurrection Page 192
The life of Christ in the believer Page 193
Union with Christ the sheet-anchor of Paul's ethics Page 194
The charge of antinomianism Page 194
Identification with Christ's attitude to sin Page 196
A moral motive and a moral dynamic Page 197
The good fight of faith Page 198
The eschatological aspect of Paul's Christ-mysticism Page 199
Paul and John on "eternal life" Page 200
CHAPTER V: RECONCILIATION AND JUSTIFICATION
Peace with God the supreme good Page 204
I.
Man made for fellowship with God Page 205
This fellowship disturbed by sin Page 205
The experience of alienation Page 206
Who has to be reconciled-man or God? Page 209
Christianity here different from other religions Page 210
Paul's use of the term "enemies" Page 212
His doctrine of "propitiation" Page 2I4
His teaching on the "wrath of God" Page 217
God the Reconciler, man the reconciled Page 221
The divine initiative Page 222
Reconciliation to life Page 224
Reconciliation to the brethren Page 225
II.
Reconciliation and the cross Page 226
The death not to be isolated from the resurrection Page 226
The meaning of the cross not to be reduced to any formula Page 227
Primitive Christian teaching on the death of Christ Page 228
Man's most flagrant crime Page 228
The divine purpose at Calvary Page 229
The cross and the forgiveness of sins Page 230
Paul's advance beyond the primitive position Page 231
The cross as the supreme condemnation of sin Page 232
The judgment of God Page 233
The cross as the supreme revelation of love Page 235
The death of Christ as a "sacrifice" Page 236
The cost to God of man's forgiveness Page 238
The cross as the gift of salvation Page 240
Christ our Substitute and our Representative Page 242
III.
Paul's greatest paradox Page 243
Permanent validity of the idea of justification Page 244
The Old Testament conception of righteousness Page 245
Righteousness in Paul's epistles Page 248
The verdict of "Not guilty" Page 250
Ideas of merit excluded Page 250
The teaching of Jesus on justification Page 252
Adoption and sonship of God Page 254
Justification not a "legal fiction" 255
Organic connection between justification and sanctification Page 257
IV.
The eschatological element in Paul not to be exaggerated Page 260
But "hope" prominent throughout his writings Page 262
Relation to Synoptic eschatology Page 263
Paul's spiritual growth and its significance Page 263
The problem of the body Page 264
The fact of death Page 265
Present struggle and future victory Page 265
The resurrection of believers Page 266
The day of judgment Page 268
The return of the Lord Page 270
CHAPTER VI: HISTORIC JESUS AND EXALTED CHRIST
Paul immeasurably Christ's debtor Page 273
I.
Paul's alleged transformation of the original Gospel Page 273
His claim to independence Page 276
Had Paul seen Jesus in the flesh? Page 278
Paul acquainted with the historic facts Page 282
The subject-matter of the apostolic preaching Page 282
Christ as a present reality Page 284
Christ as a historic Person Page 285
II.
Paul's knowledge of the Jesus of history Page 286
References in the epistles to the life of Jesus Page 286
References to the character of Jesus Page 287
References to the teaching of Jesus Page 288
Direct citations and indirect reminiscences Page 288
Paul's fundamental positions a legacy from Jesus Page 291
Jesus' attitude to the law Page 291
Jesus' message of the Kingdom of God Page 293
Christology in the Gospels, in Acts, and in the epistles Page 294
III.
A redeemed man's final estimate of his Redeemer Page 298
Jesus as Messiah Page 298
Jesus as Lord Page 301
Jesus as Son of God Page 303
The Son subordinate to the Father Page 304
Jesus on the divine side of reality Page 306
Relation of Christ and the Spirit Page 307
History of the doctrine of the Spirit Page 308
Christ and the Spirit inseparable, but not identical Page 309
Christ as the origin and goal of creation Page 311
Relevance of this to modern problems Page 313
The religious value of the idea of pre-existence Page 315
Alpha and Omega Page 317
The deathless optimism of the Christian faith Page 319
I. INDEX OF SUBJECTS Page 321
II. INDEX OF AUTHORS Page 325
III. SCRIPTURE PASSAGES Page 329

Edition Notes

Published in
New York

The Physical Object

Format
Hardcover
Number of pages
332
Dimensions
8.15 x 5.68 x 1.4 inches

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL25780115M

Community Reviews (0)

Feedback?
No community reviews have been submitted for this work.

Lists

See All

History

Download catalog record: RDF / JSON / OPDS | Wikipedia citation
October 21, 2015 Edited by dprlife Added new cover
October 21, 2015 Edited by dprlife Added table of contents.
October 21, 2015 Edited by dprlife Edited without comment.
October 21, 2015 Edited by dprlife Edited without comment.
October 21, 2015 Created by dprlife Added new book.