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APOSTLE OF THE CRUCIFIED LORD Apostle of the Crucified Lord A THEOLOGICAL INTRODUCTION TO PAUL AND HIS LETTERS Michael J. Gorman Contents Acknowledgments Vii List of Maps ix Introduction X 1. PAUL'S WORLD(S) 1 The Greco-Roman Context of His Mission 2. PAUL'S RESUME 40 The Mission of the Former Persecutor 3. PAUL'S LETTERS 74 Apostleship in Absentia 4. PAUL'S GOSPEL 98 The Good News of Christ Crucified and Raised 5. PAUL'S SPIRITUALITY 115 Covenantal, Cruciform, and Charismatic; Communal, Countercultural, and (New-) Creational 6. PAUL'S THEOLOGY 131 A Dozen Fundamental Convictions 7. 1 THESSALONIANS 146 Holiness and Hope in a Pagan World 8. 2 THESSALONIANS 167 Cruciform Faithfulness and Goodness before the Parousia 9. GALATIANS 183 The Sufficiency of the Cross and Spirit 10. 1 CORINTHIANS 227 Chaos and the Cross in Corinth 11. 2 CORINTHIANS 287 Paul's Defense of Cruciform Ministry 12. ROMANS 338 Gentile and Jew in Cruciform Covenant Community 13. PHILIPPIANS 412 The Hymn of the Crucified Lord in the Cruciform Community 14. PHILEMON 454 The Cross and the Status Quo 15. COLOSSIANS 471 The Cosmic Crucified Christ as the Wisdom of God 16. EPHESIANS 498 Walking Worthily of the Cosmic Crucified Christ 17. 2 TIMOTHY 532 Suffering Rather than Shame 18. 1 TIMOTHY 551 Proper Order and Conduct in God's Household 19. TITUS 571 Ordering Church Life and Leadership between the Epiphanies 20. EPILOGUE 580 Paul Our Contemporary Scripture Index 593 Acknowledgments The writing of any book requires the assistance of many people, some of whom may not even realize the help they have provided. I begin by acknowledging my debt to my teachers and my colleagues in Pauline studies. Some of those colleagues, whom I am privileged to count also as friends, have critically read parts of the manuscript: Warren Carter, Steve Fowl, Beverly Gaventa, Kathy Grieb, Frank Matera, Judy Ryan, Jeff Siker, Marty Soards, Marianne Meye Thompson, Ron Witherup, and Tom Wright. Judy Ryan and Ron Witherup deserve special mention for reading numerous chapters, while Tom Wright did the same and also graciously sent me a copy of the page proofs of his New Interpreter's Bible commentary on Romans. Of course, I hold none of them responsible for deficiencies that remain in the text. I owe a debt of gratitude also to my many students over the last two decades of teaching in various settings; they have helped me to clarify my thinking and my means of expressing the conclusions to which I have been driven. Some of them have also read various versions of the manuscript in whole or in part: my students in classes on Paul, including Matthew Frisoni, who made many helpful suggestions; a former research assistant, Bill Garrison; and another former research assistant, Rev. Pat Keane, then a seminarian, who carefully read several drafts of the book, made numerous valuable suggestions, verified Scripture references, and helped create the index. Most recently, Irene Morin, Zenaida Bench, and Judy Langmead completed the index. Judy Langmead also proofread much of the manuscript. A sincere word of thanks is due also to my family for their constant support: my wife Nancy, my children, and my father. Special thanks is due my son Mark, a budding historian, who read parts of the manuscript. I am grateful, as well, to friends who have supported this project, especially George Leiman, for his ongoing interest, and Steffanie Felder, who helped with typing at some crucial moments. I also express my deep gratitude to those who made the writing of this book possible. The first draft was largely completed during a sabbatical in 2001 from all of my responsibilities at St. Mary's Seminary and University. I thank our President-Rector, Fr. Robert Leavitt, for his generosity, support, and interest; Dr. Chris Dreisbach for taking on my administrative responsibilities in my absence; and the Executive Board, faculty, and staff of the Ecumenical Institute of Theology for their help and encouragement. I am grateful as well to the group of wonderful people, mostly from Fresno, California, with whom I traveled to Turkey and Greece during my sabbatical. The entire group, and especially its leaders, Dr. Jim Westgate and Rev. Gordon Donaho, made my journey most rewarding. Most of the photos in this book were taken by the author, largely during that experience. I would also like to acknowledge the sources of several other illustrations: the photgraphs of papyrus on page 8o, from the State Museums of Berlin, Papyrus Collection; the photograph of p46 on page 94, from the Institute for New Testament Textual Research, Munster, Westphalia; the reconstruction of central Roman Corinth, from N. Papahatzis, Ancient Corinth: The Museums of Corinth, Isthmia and Sicyon (Athens: Ekdotike Atherton, 1981); and the map of ancient Philippi on page 416, from C. Bakirtzis and H. Koester, eds., Philippi at the Time of Paul and after His Death (Trinity International Press, 1998). Finally, I wish to thank John Simpson and the entire Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Company for their support of this project, and for allowing the printing of several prepublication versions for student use. Those versions were prepared by Wipf and Stock Publishers under the guidance of Jon Stock and Jim Tedrick, to whom I also extend my thanks. List of Maps The extent of the Roman Empire at the time Paul wrote his letters (c. 50) 10 Paul's three missionary journeys according to Acts 46 The province of Macedonia in the first century 148 First-century Thessalonica 149 Ethnic Galatia and the province of Galatia in the first century 186 First-century Corinth and vicinity 230 Ancient Rome 339 Ancient Philippi 416 Western Asia Minor 473
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