Galatians through the centuries

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Riches, John, 1939- Author.

Series:

Blackwell Bible commentaries Galatians through the centuries

Language:

English

Physical Description:

1 online resource (354 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

[Place of publication not identified] Wiley Blackwell Imprint 2013

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This commentary on Paul's highly autobiographical letter to the Galations traces the history of the book's reception through the ages. Explores the influence and history of this important New Testament book Demonstrates the crucial role that Galatians has played in the development of very diverse forms of Christian spirituality Considers the influence of Galatians on a wide range of theological figures, including Chrysostom, Augustine, and Luther Examines the ways in which Galatians has influenced images of Paul, suggesting that it is the indeterminacy and complexity of his text that cause it to be interpreted in such widely differing ways Focuses on verses, themes or arguments that have been the subject of particularly influential readings Published in the innovative and stimulating Wiley - Blackwell Bible Commentaries reception history series, which focuses on the broad spectrum of interpretations rather than the traditional verse by verse analysis typically found in commentaries.

Contents:

Intro

Galatians: Through the Centuries

Copyright

Contents

Series Editors' Preface

Preface

List of Abbreviations

Introduction: Aims and Method, Summary of Findings, Galatians as a 'World-Building' Text

Overview

Questions of Method

The Principal Commentators

Marcion

Augustine

John Chrysostom

Thomas Aquinas

Martin Luther

John Calvin

William Perkins

Ferdinand Christian Baur

Joseph Barber Lightfoot

More recent work on Galatians

Concluding Remarks

Galatians 1:1-9: The Beginning of Paul's Argument

Literary and Historical Context of the Letter

Main Themes: 1:1-9

1 Paul's Apostolic Authority

Patristic interpretation

Reformation readings

Nineteenth- century readings

2 The Understanding of Evil and Its Overcoming

Dualist readings

Patristic readings

The modern period

Galatians 1:10-24: Paul Argues for His Independence as an Apostle (I)

The 'Conversion' of Paul the Jew

Main Themes

1 Paul's Relation to Judaism

2 Paul's Conversion

The patristic and medieval period

Galatians 2:1-10: Paul Argues for His Independence as an Apostle (II)

The Conference at Jerusalem

Historical Considerations

1 The Relationship of Acts and Galatians

2 Was Titus Circumcised?

3 'The Nature of the Dispute

Galatians 2:11-21: Justification by Faith: The New Life in Christ

1 Conflict at Antioch

Patristic and medieval period

Luther

Calvin

Perkins

2 Justification by Faith and not by Works of the Law

Chrysostom

Baur

Lightfoot

Later nineteenth-and twentieth-century readings

3 Galatians 2:20 in the Mystical Tradition.

Keiji Nishitani and the Kyoto school of Zen Buddhism

Galatians 3:1-14: Life in the Spirit Contrasted with Living under the Curse of the Law

1 The Argument from the Galatians' Experience of the Spirit, vv. 1-5

Parenthetical note on witchcraft

Hilgenfeld

Bultmann and after

2 Abraham as the Father of All Those Who Believe

2.1 Abraham as the Source of Blessing to Those that Believe

Twentieth-century readings

2.2 The Curse of the Law and Its Removal by Christ to Make Way for the Blessing of Abraham

Twentieth-century interpretation

Galatians 3:15-29: The Purpose of the Law and the New Life of Sonship of God

Brief Analysis

1 The Purpose and Limits of the Law

2 New Life as Sons (and Daughters?) of God

Patristic and medieval interpretation

Liberationist and feminist readings of Gal 3:28

Galatians 4:1-20: Paul Contrasts the Galatians' Present State as Christians with Their Former Lives

1 The Galatians' Former State

Patristic and medieval interpretations

Galatians 4:21-31: A Concluding Allegory

The Nature of Paul's Argument in This Section and Its Relation to the Argument of the Letter as a Whole

Interpretative Problems and Main Types of Interpretation.

Galatians 4:22-30: The Hagar/Sarah Story and Its Allegorization

Patristic interpretations

Galatians 5: The New Life of Faith

1 Faith Working Through Love Fulfils the Law (5:1-15)

Aquinas

Council of Trent

Nineteenth-and twentieth-century readings

2 New Life in the Spirit

The Commentators

Recent interpretations

Galatians 6: New Creation: Life Beyond the Law

1 Concluding Ethical Advice: Galatians 6:1-10

The patristic period

Cudworth

Recent historical scholarship

2 A New Creation: Galatians 6:11-18

Hilgenfeld and Lightfoot

Twentieth-century readings and the influence of apocalyptic

Glossary

Works Cited

Illustrations

Index.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

ISBN:

1-118-47636-0