Remembering Paul: ancient and modern contests over the image of the Apostle
Who was Paul of Tarsus? Radical visionary of a new age? Gender-liberating progressive? Great defender of orthodoxy? In Remembering Paul, Benjamin L. White offers a critique of early Christian claims about the "real" Paul in the second century C.E.-a period in which apostolic memory was hig...
| Summary: | Who was Paul of Tarsus? Radical visionary of a new age? Gender-liberating progressive? Great defender of orthodoxy? In Remembering Paul, Benjamin L. White offers a critique of early Christian claims about the "real" Paul in the second century C.E.-a period in which apostolic memory was highly contested-and sets these ancient contests alongside their modern counterpart: attempts to rescue the "historical" Paul from his "canonical" entrapments. Cover -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Abbreviations -- 1. Introducing "Paul" -- The "Real" Paul -- "The Apostle" -- Practicing "Paul in the Second Century" -- Re-membering Paul's Image -- 2. Capturing Paul: F. C. Baur and the Rise of the Pauline Captivity Narrative -- F. C. Baur, the "Objectivity of History," and the Historiographical Move to Separate Paul from "Paul" -- The Rise of the Pauline Captivity Narrative -- Paul and the "Heretics": Marcion -- Paul and the "Heretics": The Valentinians -- Conclusion -- 3. Re-Imagining Paul: Recent Portrayals of "Paul in the Second Century" -- Narrative Iconoclasm: The Fall of the Pauline Captivity Narrative -- Historicizing the Historian: The Fall of Historiographical Positivism -- Competing Images of Paul -- Social-Scientific Approaches to the Image of Paul -- Status quaestionis -- Toward a New Historiography of Pauline Studies -- 4. Remembering Paul: Pauline Memory Traditions into the Second Century -- Tradition -- Pauline Traditions in the Second Century: Image, Text, and Tradition -- Memory, Tradition, and Society -- Reputation and Image: Excursus on Abraham Lincoln in American Collective Memory -- "The (Polymorphic) Apostle" -- 5. Reclaiming Paul: The Image of Paul in 3 Corinthians -- 3 Corinthians: Introduction -- Paul and His Opponents -- Paul and the Apostles -- 3 Corinthians and the Pastoral Epistles -- 3 Corinthians versus 1 Corinthians 15 -- Summary and Conclusion: Constructing the "Paul" of 3 Corinthians -- 6. Expounding Paul: The Image of Paul in Irenaeus's Adversus haereses -- Paul in Irenaeus: A Brief Modern History -- Paul and the Apostles -- Irenaeus and the Pastoral Epistles -- Irenaeus and 1 Corinthians 15.50: "Flesh and Blood Cannot Inherit the Kingdom of God" -- Conclusion: 3 Corinthians, Adversus haereses, and Proto-Orthodox Memory of Paul -- 7. Practicing Paul. |
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| ISBN: | 0199370281 |