D. Dickson, John A. T. Robinson, and W. David Stacey, who suggested that Paul held a Jewish holistic perspective on humans (although not consistently).8 Rudolf Bultmann offered an individualistic and existentialist interpretation of Paul’s letters.9 In his view, “The soma is man himself (sic!), while sarx is a power that lays claim to him and determines him.”10 Ernst Käsemann reintroduced a collective-oriented perspective, and suggested that σάρξ in Paul speaks of humans as part of God’s
Elaine Pagels, a professor of religion at Princeton University and a prominent Gnostic scholar, is the author of the 1975 book The Gnostic Paul: Gnostic Exegesis of the Pauline Letters. Her other publications, The Gnostic Gospels, Adam, Eve and the Serpent, The Origin of Satan, and Beyond Belief: The Secret Gospel of Thomas are some of the most substantial works in Gnostic studies to date. Similarly, her Gnostic Paul does not disappoint in the provocative nature of its content and her thorough treatment
The book of Titus which is the seventeenth book of the New Testament is a Pastoral Epistle which is a letter to a religious leader for spiritual guidance. It is one of three Pastoral Epistles in the “New Testament” along with Timothy 1 and Timothy 2. The only difference between the Epistles to Timothy and to Titus is that Timothy was restoring order in established churches and Titus was establishing order in young churches. The author of Titus identifies himself as "Paul, slave of God and an apostle
and 33 C.E.” This means that the actual witnesses of the resurrection of Jesus Christ were still alive and could back up the story to skeptics. Paul’s document demonstrates that the core events of the Christian faith are not late legends. Paul wrote this letter to the Corinthians and because the letter was written so shortly after the resurrection, the letter is more accurate and believable (Evidence
Introduction The Complete Green Letters is a series of short chapters written by Miles J. Stanford that express certain facets to spiritual growth in the Christian life. Zondervan Publishing House published this work in 1975. The book is meant to form a holistic collection of chapters aiming to be a catalyst of learning ways to spiritual growth. He begins the first chapter with a statement summarizing his book; “The aim of this book is to carefully bring out some of the more important principles