To Know and Be Known: Towards a Pauline Epistemology – 1 Corinthians as a Test Case
In this article, I probe the apostle Paulʼs view of theological epistemology through a glimpse into 1 Corinthians - the letter in which knowledge and wisdom occurs more frequently than in all the other Pauline writings combined - attending to Paulʼs self-understanding as a knower and communicator of...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Universitetsforlaget
2022
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Teologisk tidsskrift
Year: 2022, Volume: 11, Issue: 1, Pages: 32-39 |
| Further subjects: | B
Theology
B Epistemology B Love B 1 Corinthians B Paulus B Kjærlighet B Teologisk epistemologi B Kunnskap B Paul B Korinterne |
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| Summary: | In this article, I probe the apostle Paulʼs view of theological epistemology through a glimpse into 1 Corinthians - the letter in which knowledge and wisdom occurs more frequently than in all the other Pauline writings combined - attending to Paulʼs self-understanding as a knower and communicator of truth, finding a view of a privileged yet dependent apostle. I also scrutinize how he guides the ekklesia he founded in how to handle the crux of idolatrous food, arriving at a value more profound than the establishment of a detailed prevailing theological positioning or practice - a knowing based in and giving birth to love. To Paul, theological knowledge that exists without coming to fruition in love for God and the neighbour is not true knowledge. Additionally I find in 1 Corinthians a relational ontology that seems to be undergirding the apostleʼs epistemological positioning, being expressed in his Christocentric reframing of the shma. |
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| ISSN: | 1893-0271 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Teologisk tidsskrift
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.18261/tt.11.1.4 |