Corpus-Paul

["Dr. Michael Gorman" <MGorman AT stmarys.edu>]

John Hurd's remarks about Paul re-using material is right on target, I
believe, if we understand "re-use" to mean adapt for a new situation. I
agree with him, too, that Paul re-uses and adapts freely and frequently. In
the case of Romans 14-15 as an adaptation of 1 Corinthians 8-10, it seems
that what Paul has done more fundamentally in each instance is to re-use and
adapt a more basic narrative pattern from which his "ethics" derives,
namely, the story of Jesus/Christ/the son of God. There is certainly plenty
of evidence that Paul uses this story in a variety of ways (eg Phil 2, 2 Cor
8).

Mike Gorman

Michael J. Gorman, Ph.D.
Dean, Ecumenical Institute of Theology
Professor of New Testament & Early Church History
St. Mary's Seminary & University
Baltimore, MD


-----Original Message-----
From: John C. Hurd [mailto:John.Hurd AT Squam.org]
Sent: Thursday, October 14, 1999 10:52 AM
To: Corpus-paul
Subject: [corpus-paul] Re: Paul and meat sacrificed to idols


I appreciate the discussion of the relation of 1 Cor. 8--10 to Rom. 14
which I seem to have started.  Perhaps, however, I was not as clear as I
should have been.  When I said that Paul liked the argument he had
created in 1 Cor. 8--10 so much that he reused it in Rom. 14, I meant
just that:  he reused the line of argument.  Of course the situation is
different.  Paul's letters are parts of  conversations that he was
having with various of his churches.  The Corinthian situation is not
the same as the Romans' (to the extent that he knew the latter).
    I find it to be a rule that, while Paul frequently reuses material
from letter to letter, he never applies the reused material in the same
way.  I.e., one should not expect consistency.
    Best wishes!          --          John Hurd
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