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  • From: Markus McDowell <mhmcdowe AT pepperdine.edu>
  • To: "Corpus-paul" <corpus-paul AT franklin.oit.unc.edu>
  • Subject: Re: Paul on Resurrection
  • Date: Tue, 6 Apr 1999 14:37:45 -0700


On 4/6/99 1:29 PM, Sheila E. McGinn, Ph.D. (smcginn AT jcu.edu) wrote:

>Thanks, Licia, for raising this. I think it is helpful to remember that
>Paul is
>strongly influenced by Stoicism (as seen in his ethics, e.g.) and that the
>Stoic view
>is that there exists "spiritual matter."

I am not sure that Paul was 'strongly influenced by Stoicism" in his
ethics as much as it was that these ideas, concepts, and esp langauge
constructs were floating around the Hellenistic world. I wrote a paper on
the prayers of Stoicism about a year ago, and came to the conclusion
that, while Paul may have employed similar langauge to Stoicism, and
maybe drew from some of the same concepts, his thinking is primarily
jewish/OT - certainly his ethics are the same (of course, one needs to
then determine if the Judaism of Paul was infleunced by stoicism).
I think a note of caution is needed when one sees "stoic langauge" in
Paul, and then goes on to draw conclusions about Paul's theological
constructs based on Stoicism. It may (and i repeat 'may') just be a
surface connection only.


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MARKUS H. MCDOWELL
Adjunct Professor PhD student
Religion Division Center for Advanced Theological Studies
Pepperdine University Fuller Theological Seminary
Malibu, California Pasadena, California
http://home1.gte.net/markusm/
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