Corpus-Paul

[Edgar Krentz <ekrentz AT lstc.edu>]

> Dear Jim, I'm not talking about the historical Jesus at all. I'm simply
> trying to understand Paul, and specifically Phil. 2:6ff. I'm using Dunn to
> try to do it.
> (Jeffrey, I wrote to Dunn, thanks. I've not heard back.)
>
> Best to you,
> Liz
You are on the right track. Paul had never heard of the "historical 
Jesus," never read one of the four gospels, was informed by some 
pieces of earlier Christian tradition, and applied this material to 
the needs of congregations. He was not a theologian in the sense of 
working out a systematic theology.
And I think it possible, in spite of Jim West, that Augustine and 
Luther may just have latched on to something that really is in Paul.
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