Abstract
The article discusses claims made in a recent Danish book entitled Paul Plus , Four Prisms on Paul: Paul & Paul, & the Jews, & Luther, & Nietzsche (ed. Anna Vind; Copenhagen: Publications of the Faculty of Theology 30, 2012). Against the contributors, who are basically presenting a traditional, Lutheran understanding of Paul in opposition to the 'New Perspective on Paul', it is first argued that not only was Paul a Jew: he also continued to see himself as a Jew and took the new Christ faith to be an eminently Jewish phenomenon; and secondly that a number of further features of a 'New Perspective' on Paul (he speaks ethnically about Jews and Gentiles, not about human beings vis-å-vis God; and he envisages an actual fulfillment of the Mosaic Law among Christ believers, not a continued state of being simultaneously 'justified and a sinner') follow directly from the first basic feature.
| Original language | Danish |
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| Journal | Dansk Teologisk Tidsskrift |
| Volume | 75 |
| Issue number | 4 |
| Pages (from-to) | 287-303 |
| Number of pages | 17 |
| ISSN | 0105-3191 |
| Publication status | Published - 2012 |