A Man in Christ

by Stewart, James S.

• ISBN13: 9781573832243
• ISBN10: 1573832243
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2002-01-01
• Publisher: Regent College Pub

Summary

This classic study disentagles the Apostle Paul?

Table of Contents

Paul or Pau inism?
Paul and Paulinism: a distinction	1	(2)
Paul's religion not to be systematized	3	(14)
The subject-matter of his teaching	3	(1)
The nature of the situation addressed	4	(3)
Paul's view of his vocation	7	(2)
Paul's Gospel and so-called ``plans of salvation''	9	(2)
Mistaken efforts to isolate the elements of Christian experience	11	(1)
Paul seen through the eyes of later generations	12	(1)
Two notes of warning	13	(3)
Necessity of spiritual kinship with the apostle	16	(1)
Two reactions from scholastic interpretations	17	(16)
Proposal to eliminate everything Pauline from the Gospel	17	(3)
Was Paul a theologian?	20	(1)
The reflective element in his nature	21	(3)
Experience primary, reflection secondary	24	(1)
Romans not a ``compendium of doctrine''	25	(1)
Absence of precise definition in Paul's terminology	26	(1)
No ``systems'' of eschatology or ethics	27	(1)
Paul's inner consistency	28	(2)
``This one thing I do''	30	(2)
Heritage and Environment
The double strain in Christianity, and in Paul	32	(1)
Paul's pride in his Jewish birth	33	(15)
The New Testament picture of Pharisaism	36	(1)
The pupil of Gamaliel	37	(2)
The Old Testament in Paul's curriculum	39	(1)
Monotheism and righteousness	39	(2)
The allegorical interpretation of Scripture	41	(2)
Paul's Old Testament quotations	43	(2)
Root-conceptions of apocalyptic literature	45	(2)
Paul bound to no apocalyptic scheme	47	(1)
The dispersion of the Jews	48	(8)
How Diaspora Judaism maintained its identity	51	(1)
The missionary spirit of the Jew abroad	52	(2)
Hellenistic reactions on Judaism	54	(2)
Itinerant Stoic preachers	56	(8)
Resemblances of style, language, and idea between Paul and the Stoics	57	(3)
No doctrine of grace in Stoicism	60	(1)
Further differences	61	(2)
Stoicism a religion of despair	63	(1)
The ``religious-historical school'' and the mystery religions	64	(19)
Refusal of the early Church to compromise with paganism	66	(1)
Relation of this refusal to the great persecutions	66	(1)
The originality of Christianity	67	(1)
General aim of the mysteries	68	(1)
The cults of Cybele and Isis	69	(2)
Paul's contacts with the cults	71	(1)
Was Paul versed in Hellenistic literature?	72	(1)
The Old Testament, not the mysteries, Paul's source	73	(2)
Paul a creative spirit	75	(1)
Paul's Gospel distinguished from Hellenism by its ethical insistence	76	(1)
And by its emphasis on faith	77	(4)
Disillusionment and Discovery
The glory of the conversion experience	81	(1)
The background of frustration and defeat	82	(1)
Disappointment and unhappiness	83	(16)
The legalist spirit in modern religion	84	(1)
A religion of redemption by human effort	85	(1)
The mercenary spirit in religion	86	(1)
A religion of negatives	87	(1)
Is Paul's picture of Jewish legalism correct?	88	(2)
The soul-destroying burden of tradition	90	(2)
Four attitudes to the law	92	(4)
The bitterness of Paul's personal problem	96	(2)
The power of the flesh	98	(1)
Does Romans 7 refer to the pre-conversion period?	99	(9)
Is it autobiographical?	101	(1)
Paul's sharing of his inmost experience	102	(1)
The meaning of ``flesh''	103	(1)
Paul's view of sin as personal	104	(2)
The origin of sin	106	(1)
The seriousness of sin	106	(1)
The misery of the divided self	107	(1)
The element of nobility in the law	108	(11)
The law powerless to save	110	(2)
The law revealing sin	112	(1)
The law instigating to sin	112	(1)
The law a temporary expedient	113	(2)
The law a schoolmaster to lead to Christ	115	(1)
The law destined to pass away	116	(3)
Paul's ``goads.'' Recognition of the failure of Judaism	119	(13)
The fact of the historic Jesus	120	(1)
The lives of the Christians	121	(1)
The death of Stephen	121	(1)
The conversion an act of supernatural grace	122	(2)
The Vision and the Voice	124	(3)
Is Paul's experience normative for other Christians?	127	(5)
Decisive results of the Damascus experience	132	(16)
Discovery of Jesus as alive	133	(1)
The resurrection God's vindication of His Son	134	(1)
Death and resurrection not to be isolated	135	(3)
Paul's attitude to the cross revolutionized	138	(2)
The man's self-surrender to the love of God	140	(1)
The vision of a waiting world	141	(1)
Paul and Isaiah	142	(1)
The spiritual basis of the doctrine of election	143	(2)
The endless amazement of redemption	145	(2)
Mysticism and Morality
Union with Christ the heart of Paul's religion	147	(1)
The importance of this conception too long ignored	148	(12)
Growing recognition to-day of its centrality	150	(2)
Safeguarding the doctrine of atonement	152	(2)
Examination of Paul's watchword ``in Christ''	154	(2)
The cognate phrase ``in the Spirit''	156	(2)
The mystical idea not to be thinned down	158	(2)
Widespread dislike of mysticism	160	(13)
Varieties of mystical experience	161	(1)
Every true Christian in some degree a mystic	162	(1)
``Acting'' and ``reacting'' mysticism	163	(1)
``Mystical'' and ``moral'' union	164	(1)
The analogy of human love	165	(1)
Union with Christ not pantheistic absorption	166	(2)
Christianity more than the example of Jesus	168	(2)
Union with Christ and union with God	170	(3)
``Grace'' and ``Faith''	173	(13)
The Old Testament doctrine of faith	174	(2)
The teaching of Jesus on faith	176	(1)
Varieties of Pauline usage	177	(1)
Conviction of the unseen	178	(1)
Confidence in the promises of God	178	(1)
Conviction of the facts of the Gospel	179	(2)
Faith as synonymous with Christianity	181	(1)
Faith as self-abandonment to God in Christ	182	(2)
The germ of this in the Synoptic Gospels	184	(1)
``Believing in Christ'' and ``loving Christ''	185	(1)
Union with Christ in His death	186	(19)
The trumpet-note of Romans 6	187	(4)
Union with Christ in His burial	191	(1)
Union with Christ in His resurrection	192	(1)
The life of Christ in the believer	193	(1)
Union with Christ the sheet-anchor of Paul's ethics	194	(1)
The charge of antinomianism	194	(2)
Identification with Christ's attitude to sin	196	(1)
A moral motive and a moral dynamic	197	(1)
The good fight of faith	198	(1)
The eschatological aspect of Paul's Christ-mysticism	199	(1)
Paul and John on ``eternal life''	200	(4)
Reconciliation and Justification
Peace with God the supreme good	204	(1)
Man made for fellowship with God	205	(21)
This fellowship disturbed by sin	205	(1)
The experience of alienation	206	(3)
Who has to be reconciled---man or God?	209	(1)
Christianity here different from other religions	210	(2)
Paul's use of the term ``enemies''	212	(2)
His doctrine of ``propitiation''	214	(3)
His teaching on the ``wrath of God''	217	(4)
God the Reconciler, man the reconciled	221	(1)
The divine initiative	222	(2)
Reconciliation to life	224	(1)
Reconciliation to the brethren	225	(1)
Reconciliation and the cross	226	(17)
The death not to be isolated from the resurrection	226	(1)
The meaning of the cross not to be reduced to any formula	227	(1)
Primitive Christian teaching on the death of Christ	228	(1)
Man's most flagrant crime	228	(1)
The divine purpose at Calvary	229	(1)
The cross and the forgiveness of sins	230	(1)
Paul's advance beyond the primitive position	231	(1)
The cross as the supreme condemnation of sin	232	(1)
The judgment of God	233	(2)
The cross as the supreme revelation of love	235	(1)
The death of Christ as a ``sacrifice''	236	(2)
The cost to God of man's forgiveness	238	(2)
The cross as the gift of salvation	240	(2)
Christ our Substitute and our Representative	242	(1)
Paul's greatest paradox	243	(17)
Permanent validity of the idea of justification	244	(1)
The Old Testament conception of righteousness	245	(3)
Righteousness in Paul's epistles	248	(2)
The verdict of ``Not guilty''	250	(1)
Ideas of merit excluded	250	(2)
The teaching of Jesus on justification	252	(2)
Adoption and sonship of God	254	(1)
Justification not a ``legal fiction''	255	(2)
Organic connection between justification and sanctification	257	(3)
The eschatological element in Paul not to be exaggerated	260	(13)
But ``hope'' prominent throughout his writings	262	(1)
Relation to Synoptic eschatology	263	(1)
Paul's spiritual growth and its significance	263	(1)
The problem of the body	264	(1)
The fact of death	265	(1)
Present struggle and future victory	265	(1)
The resurrection of believers	266	(2)
The day of judgment	268	(2)
The return of the Lord	270	(3)
Historic Jesus and Exalted Christ
Paul immeasurably Christ's debtor	273	(1)
Paul's alleged transformation of the original Gospel	273	(13)
His claim to independence	276	(2)
Had Paul seen Jesus in the flesh?	278	(4)
Paul acquainted with the historic facts	282	(1)
The subject-matter of the apostolic preaching	282	(2)
Christ as a present reality	284	(1)
Christ as a historic Person	285	(1)
Paul's knowledge of the Jesus of history	286	(12)
References in the epistles to the life of Jesus	286	(1)
References to the character of Jesus	287	(1)
References to the teaching of Jesus	288	(1)
Direct citations and indirect reminiscences	288	(3)
Paul's fundamental positions a legacy from Jesus	291	(1)
Jesus' attitude to the law	291	(2)
Jesus' message of the Kingdom of God	293	(1)
Christology in the Gospels, in Acts, and in the epistles	294	(4)
A redeemed man's final estimate of his Redeemer	298	(23)
Jesus as Messiah	298	(3)
Jesus as Lord	301	(2)
Jesus as Son of God	303	(1)
The Son subordinate to the Father	304	(2)
Jesus on the divine side of reality	306	(1)
Relation of Christ and the Spirit	307	(1)
History of the doctrine of the Spirit	308	(1)
Christ and the Spirit inseparable, but not identical	309	(2)
Christ as the origin and goal of creation	311	(2)
Relevance of this to modern problems	313	(2)
The religious value of the idea of pre-existence	315	(2)
Alpha and Omega	317	(2)
The deathless optimism of the Christian faith	319	(2)
Index of Subjects	321	(4)
Index of Authors	325	(4)
Scripture Passages	329