Corpus-Paul

["Jeffrey B. Gibson" <jgibson000 AT comcast.net>]

John Brand wrote:

> Date sent:              Thu, 20 Jan 2005 16:34:43 -0600
> From:                   "Jeffrey B. Gibson" <jgibson000 AT comcast.net>
> To:                     Corpus-Paul <corpus-paul AT lists.ibiblio.org>
> Subject:                Re: [Corpus-Paul] similarities
>
> >
> >
> > John Brand wrote:
> >
> > > Let's meet on more specific grounds and apart from terminology. I am
> > > open to correction. Why not consider the context of Romans 1-2 and
> > > look at similarities between what he is addressing in these chapters
> > > and what we find in Cicero's "Laws"
> >
> > I note than none of them show that there is a link in Paul between
> > Christos and Logos.
>
> John responds:
> The affintity between Christ and Logos for Romans is to be found IMO
> through the eyes of Justin Martyr whom I quoted in an earlier post:
>
> ". . .We have been taught that Christ is the first-born of God. And
> we have declared above that he is the Word [Logos] of whom every race
> of men are partakers and those who lived reasonably are Christians
> even though they have been thought to be atheists as among the
> Greeks, Socrates and Heraclitus, and men like them." (First
> Apology,18)
>
> Do we have any reason to refute the connection that Justin Martyr is
> making?

No.  But the issue isn't whether the connection was drawn by Justin.  It's
whether it was ever drawn by Paul and whether it was part of Paul's (or
second temple Judaism's) conception of who and what hO XRISTOS is.

Jeffrey


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