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Chap 1 A
Necessary Introduction to Paul...........................................................
1
Critical Underlying Problem to
Address 2
Related Issues in Hermeneutical
Impasse, Flow and Outcomes 7
A Necessary Approach to Paul 12
Doing Theology 16
The Basis for Certain Assumptions
19
Section
I The Journey of Paul's Person
Chap 2 Paul's
Journey Begins and Emerges.....................................................
23
The Journey Begins 23
The Journey Emerges 27
Whom Paul Encountered
28
The Nature of the
Interaction 28
Paul's Response to the Embodied
Word 31
Chap 3
Development in Paul's Journey.............................................................
35
Paul's Antecedents and Sources 35
Knowing Christ and 'in Christ' 42
Paul's Transition to Apostle (for the
Whole of Humanity) 47
Paul's Thought 51
Paul's Gospel 57
Chap 4 Paul's
Journey Matures.........................................................................
63
The Whole of Paul and His Witness
63
The Whole in Paul and His
Theology 71
Section II Paul and Theology
Chap 5 The
Theological Paul..............................................................................
87
The Subject of Theology 88
The Purpose of Theology 93
Interpreting Paul's Theology 98
Chap 6 Paul's
Theological Systemic Framework............................................
105
Cosmology and God 107
Anthropology and God 111
The Roots 112
The Heart 118
The Function 120
Theology of Wholeness 124
Chap 7 Paul's
Theological Forest – Part 1......................................................
135
Theological Forest Defined 135
Sine Qua Non for the Forest 140
The Forest Enacted 143
The Forest Embodied 144
Paul's Pleroma Christology
146
Pleroma Christology
Completed 156
Chap 8 Paul's
Theological Forest – Part 2.......................................................
167
Pleroma Soteriology 169
Pleroma Soteriology
Completed 176
Theology of Belonging 183
Theology of Ontological Identity
189
Chap 9 Paul's
Theological Forest – Part 3.......................................................
195
Pleroma Pneumatology 196
Participating in God's Life 206
Ecclesiology of the Whole 208
Pauline Development 209
The Roots of Ekklesia 209
Paul's Pleroma Ecclesiology 211
Its Functional Basis 212
Its Ontology and Function of the
Church 217
Its Functional Significance 221
Its Functional Imperatives and
Implications 227
Chap 10 The
Church Alive in Wholeness.........................................................
235
The Church on the Offensive 236
Leadership in the New Creation
237
The Church in Love 242
The Church in the New Relational
Order 245
The Church as Equalizer from the Inner
Out 248
The Church in Its Own Difference
259
Section III Further Theological & Textual Notes
Chap 11
Supplemental Theological Notes.......................................................
267
Eleven Interrelated Questions in Paul’s
Theology............................................ 268
1.
How important is continuity and
discontinuity in Paul?............................... 268
2.
Is reductionism a straw man in Paul's
polemic which becomes reified as his
discourse
unfolds?..........................................................................................
269
3.
How much of Paul's claim to have
received direct revelation from God can be factored in
to make
definitive the whole in his theology, the development of which
goes both further
than Judaism
and even deeper than the
Jesus tradition.............................. 270
4.
How important was methodology to
Paul's theology?.................................. 272
5.
What was the nature of Paul's
faith-response to God's revelation and how did it differ from
OT faith? Was
Paul's view of faith (including for justification) any different
than James'
view?................................................................................................................
273
6.
How did Paul see works and what did he
mean by doing good, good works?....... 276
7.
As a Jew and a Christian, what was
Paul's understanding of God's people?...... 278
8.
As a Jew and a Christian and an
adopted son, to what extent did change
need to take
effect 'already' for his theology to be
functional?............................ 280
9.
Since the influence of reduced human
ontology and function limits this relational outcome,
what was
Paul's position on religio-cultural and sociocultural practices
which may
appear to be
problematic, or
not?.....................................................................
281
10.
Given Paul's emphasis on the
relational outcome 'already' of God's relational response to
the human
condition, how is Paul's discourse on slaves congruent with this
relational
outcome, and
his directives for them compatible with its function in
transformed
relationships
together?.....................................................................................
283
11.
Equally important, if not more, how
are Paul's new creation view of women and his
prescriptions
for them in agreement, and how are his directives compatible for
the relational
outcome of God's new creation family?........ 284
● A twelfth question for all of Paul’s
readers.......................................................
292
Chap 12
Additional Textual Notes...................................................................
293
1 Thessalonians (294); 2 Thessalonians
(295); 1 Corinthians (296);
2 Corinthians (301); Galatians (304);
Romans (307); Colossians (318); Philemon (320);
Ephesians (321); Philippians (324); Titus (327); 1 Timothy
(328); 2 Timothy (330)
Bibliography........................................................................................................
333
Scripture Index....................................................................................................
337