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  • From: JERRY SUMNEY <JSUMNEY AT LEXTHEO.EDU>
  • To: 'Corpus-paul' <corpus-paul AT franklin.oit.unc.edu>
  • Subject: RE: Galatian situation
  • Date: Thu, 21 Sep 2000 15:22:30 -0400



Dieter wrote:

That's why I emphasized in my first input: Everybody agreed on the
insignificance of circumcision for salvation!

Jerry replies:
I wonder if you might agree to a modification of this statement which I
think is on precisely the right track. What if we say that Everybody In
Galatia agreed on the insignificance of circumcision. ?? I think Paul is
the one who makes this a theological issue and that neither the other
teachers nor the broader community thought of it as one. But Paul sees
great theological issues at stake.

Dieter wrote:

It is however still my sense of the rhetorical strategy, that Paul would not
have written ch 2.1-15 the way he did, had he not seen the connection with
Jerusalem, Peter and James.

Jerry:
I think the explanation for such strong rhetoric may lie in Paul's
having faced teaching on multiple occasions that required circumcision and
now responds so forcefully because he sees such teaching as dangerous and he
is tired of it resurfacing. I think this is sufficient cause for him to
react in this way when it is combined with the theological issues he has
seen attached to it at other and what he says is at stake for his own
theology.

Jerry

Jerry L. Sumney
Lexington Theological Seminary
631 S. Limestone
Lexington, KY 40508
(606) 252-0361
jsumney AT lextheo.edu






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