Order from a Major Online Bookstore
Ultimate Book Price Comparison Engine
Save Your Time And Money
| AnyBook4Less.com | Order from a Major Online Bookstore |
|
| Home | Store List | FAQ | Contact Us | | ||
| Ultimate Book Price Comparison Engine Save Your Time And Money |
||
 |
Title: Paul Among the Postliberals by Douglas Harink ISBN: 1-58743-041-X Publisher: Brazos Press Pub. Date: October, 2003 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $23.99 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.5 (2 reviews)
Rating: 4
Summary: Fascinating Re-viewing of Pauline Thought
Comment: Douglas Harink's "Paul Among the Postliberals: Pauline Theology Beyond Christendom and Modernity" is one of the growing number of books that are actually starting to do what theologians and biblical scholars have been squabling about for ages. That is, bringing the Bible into conversation with the culture of the day. Harink explores Pauline thought through five chapters, Justification, Apocalypse, Politics, Israel and Culture.
Harink's discussion of justification takes its que from contemporary Pauline scholars like Richard Hays, J. Louis Martyn and Michael Gorman. What follows is a sucinct treatment of the issue that is currently under major discussion in Pauline studies, that is whether the phrase 'pistis Christos' in Romans and Galatians means 'faith in Christ' or 'faithfulness of Christ.' Harink argues for the latter follwoing Hays et al. His discussion of this issue is not only well argued biblically, but also provides a good introduction to the debate itself.
In his discussion of Apacalypse, Harink shows that Paul and Stanley Hauerwas have more in common than has often been thought. The apocalyptice dimension of Paul's thought, which has long been neglected is now being re-discovered in Pauline Studies. Harink shows well the connection between this understanding of Paul and the work of Stanley Hauerwas.
In his chapter on Politics, Harink follows Yoder's extensive work on Paul in "The Politics of Jesus." Harink shows that the radical eschatological politics of nonviolence are consistent between Jesus and Paul, and the Paul's thought on this issue is profoundly derived from his being a disciple of Christ. Rejected is the notion that Paul was founding another religion that later came to be known as Christianity.
Harink then launches into a discussion of Israel. What follows is a critique of N.T. Wright's "supercessionism" and an attempt to close the "Jewish-Christian Schism" (a book by Yoder) through an affrimation of non-Messianic Judaisim in Paul's thought. This is certainly the weakest chapter in the book. Harink's engagement with Wright is, I think caricature and I also have questions about his use of Yoder. Most of all, though his reading of Paul is faulty. He does not seriously engage with many passages that have a bearing on this issue.
The finaly chapter attempts to bring Paul into conversation with current questions of Pluralism and culture. What follows is a good discussion of the church as culture in its own right, the issue of universality and a discussion of key Pauline phrases that capture different facets of his thought on "the world".
All in all this is a good book. It is not without its flaws, particuarly in chapter 4, but it is an excellent work in Pauline and contemporary theology. Most helpful is the overall thesis that the thought of Paul corresponds in many ways to that of the 'postliberal' research program, the implications of which are profound.
Rating: 5
Summary: A thoughtful striving for insight that transcends millennia
Comment: Paul Among The Postliberals: Pauline Theology Beyond Christendom And Modernity by Douglas Harink (Associate Professor of Theology at The King's University College, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada) seeks a dialogue between post-liberal theologians such as Yoder and Hauerwas and the testimony of the "original apocalyptic theologian", the apostle Paul himself. A thoughtful striving for insight that transcends millennia, and written with a close eye on the Scriptures and their impact on Christianity in the present and future, Paul Among The Postliberals is a welcome and recommended addition to Pauline Studies and New Testament Studies reading lists.
 |
Title: The Jewish-Christian Schism Revisited (Radical Traditions) by John Howard Yoder, Michael G. Cartwright, Peter Ochs ISBN: 0802813623 Publisher: Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Co. Pub. Date: June, 2003 List Price(USD): $30.00 |
 |
Title: Islam : Religion, History, and Civilization by Seyyed Hossein Nasr ISBN: 0060507144 Publisher: Harper SanFrancisco Pub. Date: 24 December, 2002 List Price(USD): $12.95 |
 |
Title: Homosexuality and the Bible: Two Views by Robert A. J. Gagnon, Dan O. Via ISBN: 080063618X Publisher: Fortress Press Pub. Date: September, 2003 List Price(USD): $13.00 |
 |
Title: The Church in a Postliberal Age (Radical Traditions) by George A. Lindbeck, James J. Buckley ISBN: 0802839959 Publisher: Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Co. Pub. Date: January, 2003 List Price(USD): $27.00 |
 |
Title: Theopolitical Imagination by William T. Cavanaugh ISBN: 0567088774 Publisher: T&t Clark Ltd Pub. Date: May, 2003 List Price(USD): $22.95 |
Thank you for visiting www.AnyBook4Less.com and enjoy your savings!
Copyright� 2001-2021 Send your comments
