RT Article
T1 Vessels of Wrath and God’s Pathos: Potter/Clay Imagery in Rom 9:20–23
JF Harvard theological review
VO 115
IS 2
SP 197
OP 218
A1 Staples, Jason A. 1982-
LA English
PB Cambridge Univ. Press
YR 2022
UL https://ixtheo.de/Record/1806417960
AB Starting from the concept of divine patience in Rom 9:22, this article argues that Paul employs the potter/clay metaphor not (as often interpreted) to defend God’s right to arbitrary choice but rather as an appeal to what Abraham Heschel called divine pathos—the idea that God’s choices are impacted by human actions. The potter/clay imagery in Rom 9:20-23 thus serves to highlight the dynamic and improvisational way the God of Israel interacts with Israel and, by extension, all of creation.
K1 Apostle Paul
K1 Clay
K1 Potter
K1 Predestination
K1 Sovereignty
K1 Theodicy
DO 10.1017/S0017816022000116