Corpus-Paul

[Edgar Krentz <ekrentz AT lstc.edu>]

At 10:31 AM -0500 6/4/01, Jeffrey B. Gibson wrote:
> Edgar Krentz wrote:
>  >
> >  Jeff, I use Roetzel. You did not say why you were dissatisfied.
>
> I don't like the idea that he perpetuates what I regard as the 
> "myth" that the age in
> which Paul lived and moved and had his being was an age of anxiety. 
> To my eyes, this
> sets up and/or bolsters the equally questionable idea that Paul's 
> Gospel was primarily
> intent to deal with "anxiety" and just perpetuates what Sanders 
> calls the Lutheran
> stereotype of Paul and his message, let alone what "justification" 
> is all about.
>
> Perhaps I'm being too harsh on Roetzel?
>
> Yours,
>
> Jeffrey
>
> --
> Jeffrey B. Gibson, D.Phil. (Oxon.)
> 7423 N. Sheridan Road #2A
> Chicago, Illinois 60626
> e-mail jgibson000 AT home.com

Why not just use the opportunity to disagree with your textbook and 
tell the students why! And give them an alternative reading;.that 
might make for better educatio, teaching students how to be critical 
of what they read!. If you look for a textbook with which you agree 
100% you are doomed to failure.

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Edgar Krentz
Christ Seminary--Seminex Professor of New Testament, Emeritus
Lutheran School of Theology at Chicago
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