Paul's ethic of freedom
Galatians should be regarded as a charter on Christian freedom. Much more attention should be paid to Galatians as primary source in Paul's conception of Christian freedom. Too often it is passed over as a contingent letter that has to be understood in terms of Paul's so-called greater cla...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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2005
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Neotestamentica
Year: 2005, Volume: 39, Issue: 2, Pages: 313-337 |
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| Summary: | Galatians should be regarded as a charter on Christian freedom. Much more attention should be paid to Galatians as primary source in Paul's conception of Christian freedom. Too often it is passed over as a contingent letter that has to be understood in terms of Paul's so-called greater clarity on the matter in his letter to the Romans. In Galatians Paul makes vast use of apocalyptic in order to reframe the Galatians' mindset, in order that they understand that a radically new dispensation had arrived in the advent of Christ and his Spirit. Soteriologically speaking they had entered the dispensation of salvation in Christ. Ethically speaking they had entered the period in which the Spirit would guide them from within and in which law would no longer have a function. The Spirit would produce the fruit that law was unable to provide. |
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| ISSN: | 2518-4628 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Neotestamentica
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.10520/EJC83203 |