Corpus-Paul

["Francisco Ramirez" <franramirez AT teo.upco.es>]

Mark,

I feel very much close to your refusal of a either/or interpretation of
Paul. But are you restricting the "dawn of the Kingdom" to the resurrected
Christ (kingdom would then mean "Christ to reigns" as in 1 Cor 15,25)?
What about the believers?
I wonder if some texts as 1QS 11:2ff. or the Hodayot may shed some light on
Paul's idea of kingdom of God: in Qumran the community is already sharing
the "inheritance in the lot of the holy ones" (1QS 11:7-8).

regards,
Francisco
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Francisco Ramírez Fueyo
Universidad Pontificia Comillas (Madrid)
franramirez AT teo.upco.es



----- Original Message -----
From: Mark D. Nanos <nanosmd AT home.com>
To: Corpus-paul <corpus-paul AT franklin.oit.unc.edu>
Sent: Tuesday, June 05, 2001 5:18 AM
Subject: [corpus-paul] Re: Kingdom of God in Paul


> on 6/4/01 12:08 PM, Francisco Ramirez at franramirez AT teo.upco.es wrote:
>
> > I'm actually working on the subject of Paul and the Kingdom of God. I'm
> > aware this is a huge theme, although Paul does not say too much about
it.
> >
> > I'm focusing now on Gal 5,21, and wondering wether we can be sure Paul
is
> > here pointing to a pure future kingdom or not.
>
> Francisco,
> Does not 5:5, where the Galatians are instructed not to gain acceptance
the
> standard way, but rather, "through the Spirit, by faith," to "wait for the
> hope of righteousness," suggest both a future and present sense for this
> language? In addition, there is the theme of how they ought to "walk" in
the
> present throughout this discourse, yet with the hope that God will see to
it
> that, in the end, they reap what the sow (from ch. 5 through 6:10, and
again
> in the summary of the letter from 6:11-18). The tension seems to be
between
> the temptation to comply with the wishes of those who control goods, and
the
> reward to be gained by non-compliance with them, when it is a choice made
in
> order to conform with what they now believe to be appropriate because of
the
> "meaning of Christ's death."
>
> I continue to find it helpful to read Galatians not with an either/or
lens,
> but with one that accounts for Paul's call to live "now" in view of the
> conviction that the "end of the ages/kingdom of God" has "dawned" in the
> midst of the present age (in the meaning attributed to the death of a
Judean
> martyr of the Roman regime = Jesus, who is believed to have been
resurrected
> = Christ), but the culmination of that period has not yet arrived.
>
> Regards,
> Mark
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