Corpus-Paul

[Ronald Troxel <rltroxel AT facstaff.wisc.edu>]

Sheila,

This is a good observation, worth more than 2 cents!

Ron Troxel

>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."  In fact, for the Stoics, God was
>a highly
>refined, spiritual _substance_.  Paul's discussion of the resurrection (in
>esp. 1 Cor
>15) affirms both the "spiritual" and the "bodily" reality of resurrection.
>The
>debates in prior posts about spirit v. body, as also the debate over
>subjective v.
>objective, are too stark.  It seems to me that Paul wants to say both/and
>rather than
>either/or.  So, in my view, Paul believes Jesus was raised "in the body"
>but this is
>the SWMA PNEUMATIKON, as opposed to the SWMA YUCIKON which indeed died on
>the cross.
>We, on the other hand, are heirs to Plato who divorces spirit from matter,
>so our
>notion of "physical" is that it must be alien to the "spiritual" and v-v.
>
>My 2 cents.

Ronald L. Troxel, Ph.D.
Department of Hebrew and Semitic Studies
1340 Van Hise Hall
1220 Linden Dr.
Madison, WI 53706