Pauline Christianity

Michael Bird the author, has a background in theological studies added to him being an Anglican priest. Among his academic interest is a focus on Pauline Chronology and Theology which gives him a more or less avid grasp of the input and contribution of Paul into Christianity and Theology.1 Paul being one of the most researched and documented apostles is as a result of his contribution to Christianity being noteworthy and him being an interesting to influence Christianity. Michael Bird has written before about understanding the different perspectives of Paul in some earlier works; The Saving Righteousness of God and A Bird’s-Eye View of Paul in 2007 and 2008 respectively. 1So he is not a stranger to Paul’s contribution and his works but rather…

stories, but may involve some convinced truth. The contemporary stories have more description of psychological activities. Both in Yellow Woman by Leslie Marmon Silko and It Was In the Beginning by E. Pauline Johnson, the authors abandoned the third person perspective, but directly used “I” to organize their stories, which was obviously more feasible for the authors to describe the characters’ psychological activities. With more psychological activities, we know the Yellow Woman has more…

Acts chapter 16 contains a story of an unnamed slave-girl who was following Paul and Silas. When read with a feminist interpretation, the seemingly minor text revealed unique and problematic power differentials between the girl and the other characters. Every character in the story used the girl for a purpose, which illustrated the power differentials. The spirit of divination that possessed her used her to speak through, the apostle Paul used her by casting out her spirit, the owners used…

Today, the false compromises engineered permissive pastors, self-willed congregations, and politicized church administrators are flagrant perversions of Pauline theology. This middle ground is born out of pastoral trepidation and congregational self-interest at the expense of the un-churched. Through word and action, God calls the worshiping church to embrace Christ 's sacrificial character, to stop genuflecting to congregational sensitivity, and to embrace a praxis of worship that is capable of…

Introduction: “Now concerning the matters about which you wrote: ‘It is well for a man not to touch a woman.’” This is according to the Apostle Paul in his first letter to the Corinthians. Although Saint Paul goes on to say that it is better for one to be married to avoid sexual immorality, historians widely believe that his sexual ethics, especially in relation to virginity, played a significant role in the lives of Christians, especially young women, throughout the early Church. The Acts of…

For example, when Pauline tries to convert those at Fleur’s, her native culture undermines her Christian mission through the form of charity. Margaret brewed a stew “made from a winter grouse that was all bones... shredded meat, marrow, and some cattail roots, boiled” (145). Pauline considers how the stew “scented the room, called to the body with its fragrance, even though it was mainly water” (145). After Fleur splits her meal with Lulu, Fleur gives the rest to Pauline. Pauline is so starved;…

The book that I have chosen for my book review is entitled, The First Urban Christians: The Social World of the Apostle Paul, written by Wayne A. Meeks. The book is an account of what it was like to be a Christian in a Pauline church living in the first century. The book draws upon archaeological biblical and non-biblical literary sources to back up its claims. Since the author is a professor at Yale University, it is written in a scholarly manner and relies on up to date history and…

INTRODUCTION N. T. Wright, or Nicholas Thomas Wright, is a former Anglican minister – namely the Bishop of Durham – who is widely considered a gifted biblical scholar and prolific author in the field of Christian theology and Early Christianity, and especially Pauline texts . Despite his reluctance, N. T. Wright is unavoidably associated with more or less a different approach to the reading of Apostle Paul, which has gained currency as “the new perspective” – a term coined by James Dunn .…

Through the metaphor of the olive tree’s branches, Romans 11:17-24 describes the inclusion of the Gentiles, stresses the equality between Gentiles and Jews within the movement, and exemplifies the power of God. This passage builds on themes prevalent throughout Paul’s letters such as equality, unity, and the salvation through God and the belief in Jesus. Paul does this through an olive tree, describing God’s ability to break off branches representing the unbelievers, while also grafting on those…

In chapter 12 of Bart Ehrman’s text he talks about the significant the book of Acts is when talking about the Apostle Paul. Ehrman briefly talk about Paul’s Life, and how the events in his life played a major factor in Christianity. According Ehrman there are some differences and similarities on how Luke wrote the book of Acts. Ehrman does point about these similarities and differences for the reader. Ehrman utilizes much of the vocabulary or key terms in this chapter. The first terms which…