{"agent_id":"schweitzer","agent_name":"Albert Schweitzer","slug":"paul-the-mystic","label":"Paul the mystic: is being-in-Christ the centre of Paul, rather than justification by faith?","topic":"Paul the mystic","question":"Is being-in-Christ the centre of Paul, rather than justification by faith?","position":"Justification is a subsidiary crater within the main crater of the mystical doctrine of redemption through being-in-Christ. Paul's categories are eschatological and participatory, not Hellenistic and forensic.","paragraphs":[[{"t":"Justification is a subsidiary crater within the main crater of the mystical doctrine of redemption through being-in-Christ.","n":[1,2,3]},{"t":"Paul's categories are eschatological and participatory, not Hellenistic and forensic.","n":[4,5]}]],"texts":"*Geschichte der Paulinischen Forschung* (1911); *Die Mystik des Apostels Paulus* (1930). Reception: the Lutheran tradition for which justification is the article on which the church stands or falls; E. P. Sanders's *Paul and Palestinian Judaism*, which credits Schweitzer and reopens the question; the New Perspective's development of the participatory reading.","works":["*Geschichte der Paulinischen Forschung* (1911)","*Die Mystik des Apostels Paulus* (1930)"],"reception":"the Lutheran tradition for which justification is the article on which the church stands or falls; E. P. Sanders's *Paul and Palestinian Judaism*, which credits Schweitzer and reopens the question; the New Perspective's development of the participatory reading.","status":"Marginal when published and substantially vindicated fifty years later.","era":"1875-1965","discipline":"Theology, Philosophy","refs":[{"n":1,"work":"The Mysticism of Paul the Apostle","page":"pp. 245–246","canonical":"","quote":"This is the 4 which he pays for the possibility of finding t i from the Law in the doctrine of the atoning death of Jesus. } Tt_is not, however, of importan here is no logical route from the righteousness by faith t er ethics, for in his mysticism ethics are brought in a natural way into connection with a idea of the forgiveness of redemption in general.","label":"The Mysticism of Paul the Apostle, pp. 245–246"},{"n":2,"work":"The Mysticism of Paul the Apostle","page":"pp. 410–412","canonical":"","quote":"'The Asia Minor theology, which succeeded the Primitiveto Christian eschatological, took over from Paul the concept of redemption through union with Christ, and recast it in Hellenistic material. as the mystical doctrine of participation in the working of the Spirit upon the flesh, which began in the appearance of Jesus and guarantees the resurrection.","label":"The Mysticism of Paul the Apostle, pp. 410–412"},{"n":3,"work":"The Mysticism of Paul the Apostle","page":"p. 412","canonical":"","quote":"At the Reformation this Pauline doctrine of justification rose up and cast off the fetters which the Church had laid upon it. In this way there arose in Western Christianity a movement which professed an absolute allegiance to Paul's teaching.","label":"The Mysticism of Paul the Apostle, p. 412"},{"n":4,"work":"The Mysticism of Paul the Apostle","page":"pp. 44–45","canonical":"","quote":"As possessed of afmode of apprehensio oming from within and directed towards that which is within, he is exalted bove all knowledge coming from without. If he tolerates naive Statements about the \"temporal and eternal as traditional pictures, he nevertheless constantly endeavours to illuminate this exoteric material with the penetrating light of mysticism and | to show it up 'clearly in its inadequate relativity.","label":"The Mysticism of Paul the Apostle, pp. 44–45"},{"n":5,"work":"Paul and His Interpreters","page":"","canonical":"","quote":"If it had the impression that the background as thus restored, while no doubt \"interesting,\" was somewhat too glaring and obtrusive, it remained confident that the \"doctrinal system\" which it throws into relief is not otherwise affected by it. The appendix-chapter on eschatology grows in size and acquires a certain connectedness.","label":"Paul and His Interpreters"}],"answer":null,"siblings":[{"slug":"thoroughgoing-eschatology","label":"Thoroughgoing eschatology: did Jesus expect an imminent end, and was he mistaken?"},{"slug":"the-quest-as-self-portraiture","label":"The quest as self-portraiture: does every reconstruction of Jesus reveal its author?"},{"slug":"reverence-for-life","label":"Reverence for life: is an ethic without limits an ethic at all?"}]}