Corpus-Paul

[Jim West <jwest AT Highland.Net>]

At 10:25 PM 4/22/99 +0100, you wrote:

>This set me thinking about PNEUMA and PSYCHE. Would friends care to comment
>on the above. I am particularly interested in opinions as to why Paul felt
>PSYCHE would not do. Did he coin the use of Breath as the eschatalogical
>equivalent, or was he drawing on an earlier tradition?

Chris,

I dont mean to sound put off-ish or like I am avoiding your question- it is
a very good one.    Its just been a long day and I dont have time just now
to give you the answer that you deserve.  So I will defer my comments for
now and instead ask you to take a look at Rudolf Bultmann's "Theology of the
New Testament" section 18 where Bultmann discusses this very issue in Paul.
It is, honestly, the best description and explanation that I have seen. 

If you cant get hold of it- or someone answers more fully before tomorrow, I
will happily summarize it for you.  (I'm just to whipped to do it now- sorry).

Best,

Jim

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