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- From: "Mesfin Atlaye" <mesfin AT idirect.com>
- To: "Corpus-paul" <corpus-paul AT franklin.oit.unc.edu>
- Subject: (dis)unity in the Early Church
- Date: Mon, 2 Apr 2001 13:47:11 -0400
Following my cry on the issue
of methodology---that in all suggestions concerning St. Paul's
biography to give primacy to the Pauline personal letters over Luke's creative
and imaginative work (the Lukan Paul was blinded-he did not see Jesus-so, he can
not be called an apostle-therefore he had to appeal to those who saw Jesus
personally)---the discussion was naturally
diverted into the unity/disunity issue within the early church (Jewish and
Gentile Christians). For every comment I made
some asked a verse reference from here or there which, in my view, will not take
us anywhere. It has been a wishful and ambitious endeavour among many
scholars and non scholars, for years, to reconcile the Lukan account
of Paul with that of the epistles. The evidence of disunity is clear, and also
Luke's struggle to paint a unified body. We only can agree to
disagree. But I rest my case, momentarily on this issue, with a strong
recommendation to all who are interested to (re)read Paul
Achtemeir's The Quest for Unity in the New Testament Church
(Fortress: 1987). Really, A must read book.
Peace!
Mesfin Atlaye.
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- (dis)unity in the Early Church, Mesfin Atlaye, 04/02/2001
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