Corpus-Paul

["Jeffrey B. Gibson" <jgibson000 AT mailhost.chi.ameritech.net>]

Graydon Snyder (Graydonsny AT aol.com) wrote:

> Since Paul was not an exorcist there is not likely much written on the
> subject.
> Though I don't especially recommend it, you might find what you want in:
>
> The Devil, Disease and Deliverance: Origins of Illness in New Testament
> Thought. By John
> Christopher Thomas. Journal of Pentecostal Theology Supplement Series
> 13-Sheffield:
> Sheffield Academic Press, 1998. 360 pp. Paper. $21.95.
>

Graydon,

I take it that what you mean by Paul not being an exorcist is that in his 
letters Paul
never mentions his having engaged in that activity (nor does he ever there 
explicitly
mention exorcisms themselves, for that matter) or ever presents himself 
within that
role. But in Acts it's a different story. There, in Acts 16,  Paul *is* 
portrayed as
engaging in exorcistic activity.  What, typically, is the explanation for 
this, I
wonder? And is not Paul portrayed as an exorcist in some of the apocryphal 
acts as
well?

Yours,

Jeffrey Gibson


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