Corpus-Paul

["Jill & Dale Walker" <jillendale AT 21stcentury.net>]

Jerry,

I'm thinking that the Corinthians believed they were participating in
the eschatological reality, so part of Paul's challenge is to define
eschatological reality persuasively. (Yes, I'm letting 1 Cor influence
my understanding of 2 Cor, assuming that unresolved matters of Christ,
spirit, and church persist--though new ingredients have entered the
picture.)

Cheers,
Dale Walker



JERRY SUMNEY wrote:
> 
> I agree with the approach Mark Nanos takes to 2 Cor 5:16 and I think he
> gives some good reasons for that view.  My own reconstruction of the
> situation finds too little reason to think that the opponents make claims
> about knowledge of the historical Jesus.  As Mark commented, this is a
> polemically drawn contrast.  What I want to add is that the basic
> theological reason Paul makes such a contrast is his eschatology.  It is a
> question of whether one is participating in the eschatological reality that
> determines which way of knowing one uses.  This does not, I think, disagree
> with what Mark said.  Rather, it gives it a framework.
> 
> Jerry
> 
> Jerry L. Sumney
> Lexington Theological Seminary
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> Lexington, KY 40508
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