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The problem of this investigation is the combining of the spatial concepts of Paul Cezanne and the Analytical Cubists in a single painting.

Gal. 3:10-14 is still one of the most controversial and challenging passages in Paul's letters. The logic of Paul's rhetoric is that which mainly baffles. Study of this text has been hampered by an inadequate appreciation of the ranges of possible meanings, at all semantic levels. We seek to redress this lack m chapter 2. We survey the science of logic. We discover overlooked semantic possibilities for three key word-groups in Paul's rhetoric. and could be "discourse" lexical concepts. By Paul very possibly intends "accomplishments" rather than "endeavour." Chapter 3 finds the indicated senses Paul’s. Effectively multiplying our data via sociolinguistic cognizance that identical words may denote different "realities" for speaker and hearer, we discover that Paul's usage implies a three-fold working semantic hypothesis: For Paul "faith" believes in a covenantal condition besides itself, namely obedience (endeavour to fulfil God's commands); Paul is basically denying that justification depends upon any particular amount of accomplishment of God’s commands; and the issue Paul is addressing is not that of die true means of justification, but that of the true meaning of ("righteousness" and thereby of) "justification" in the context of God’s covenant. The remainder of the thesis confirms and elaborates this overall meaning for Gal. 3:10-14. In verse 10 Paul points out that logically those who hold to the theory of "justification" have circumstances which contradict that theory; thus he is arguing by a "circumstantial" ad hominem type of argument. In verses 11-12 he circumstantially undermines his opponents' "accomplishments" righteousness-criterion by its incompatibility with Hab. 2:4. In verses 13-14, the "rescue" works entirely by causa cognoscendi: it is not a means of propitiation or repayment, either for man or for God. Our findings support our hypothesis.

Thesis advisor: Thomas D. Stegman / Thesis advisor: Christopher R. Matthews / Thesis (STL) — Boston College, 2016. / Submitted to: Boston College. School of Theology and Ministry. / Discipline: Sacred Theology.

In this thesis, I make the following case. (1) While instances of the imago Dei in biblical and second-temple Jewish sources are diverse and pluriform, they are nonetheless illuminating for Paul's imago Dei theology. (2) However, this theology is best explained on the hypothesis that Paul, like Philo and the author of Wisdom, made use of ‘intermediary speculation' in which the kosmos came into being via an intermediary ‘figure': in the latter's case sophia and/or the logos and in Paul's case the pre-existent Jesus. (3) In this connection, while the resources of the Jewish wisdom tradition (e.g. Prov. 8; Sir. 1; 24; 1 En. 42; Wis. 7; and Bar. 3–4) did not provide Paul with the precision afforded by the ‘prepositional metaphysics' of the philosophical tradition (cf. 1 Cor. 8.6; and Col. 1.15–20; cp. John 1.3, 10; and Heb. 1.2), the general contours of that tradition—in which sophia attended to the creation, maintenance and salvation of the kosmos—were appreciated and appropriated in Paul's imago Dei theology. (4) Beyond this, a few features of Paul's imago Dei theology—especially his collocation of εἰκών (‘image') and πρωτότοκος (‘firstborn') (cf. Rom. 8.29; and Col. 1.15) and his ‘teleological' construal of the imago Dei conception, in which Jesus serves as the archetypal ‘image' to which believers will ultimately be conformed (2 Cor. 3.18; Rom. 8.29; cp. Phil. 3.21)—strongly suggest that Paul was here influenced (directly or indirectly) by Middle Platonic intermediary doctrine. (5) On the basis of points (2) through (4), therefore, it is wisdom christology, rather than Adam (and/or ‘imperial') christology, which serves as the principal background of Paul's ‘image christology'. This ‘image christology', furthermore, in which Jesus serves as the protological and cosmogonical image of God, is an instance of ‘christological monotheism'. In this regard, Jesus is included in the one activity (creation) which most clearly demarcates the ‘unique divine identity' in second-temple Jewish thought. (6) Finally, my argument concerning the way in which Paul adapts certain features of the philosophical imago Dei tradition encourages a fresh reading of two major Pauline texts: 2 Corinthians 2.17–4.6; and Colossians 1.15–20; 3.10. In these texts, I contend, Paul casts essentially inner-Jewish debates in philosophical dress. While the substantive issues are ‘inner-Jewish' issues, Paul presents his opponents and/or opposing views as bound up with a futile and/or deceitful philosophy, while he presents himself and his sympathisers as people who attain to the telos of true philosophy: the image of God (2 Cor. 3.18; and Col. 3.10; cp. Rom. 8.29).

周柬妮. / "2010年5月". / "2010 nian 5 yue". / Thesis (M.Div.)--Chinese University of Hong Kong, 2010. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 52-56). / Abstract in Chinese and English. / Zhou Jianni. / 致謝 --- p.ii / 簡介 --- p.iii / Abstract --- p.iv / Chapter 1 --- 導論 --- p.1 / Chapter 1.1 --- 本文論題一異象乃心靈成長催化劑 --- p.4 / Chapter 1.2 --- 方法論 --- p.5 / Chapter 2 --- 保、羅 --- p.8 / Chapter 2.1 --- 大馬士革路上的異象 --- p.10 / Chapter 2.1.1 --- 使徒行傳 --- p.11 / Chapter 2.1.2 --- 保羅書信 --- p.12 / Chapter 2.1.3 --- 學者對兩者差異的評論 --- p.14 / Chapter 2.2 --- 近代研究保羅的取向 --- p.15 / Chapter 3 --- 保羅異象的分析 --- p.16 / Chapter 3.1 --- 異象 --- p.16 / Chapter 3.1.1 --- 基督宗教的觀點 --- p.17 / Chapter 3.1.2 --- 心理學方面的觀點 --- p.21 / Chapter 3.1.2.1 --- 否定的觀點 --- p.22 / Chapter 3.1.2.2 --- 肯定的觀點 --- p.24 / Chapter 3.2 --- 心理學否定異象的兩個歸因 --- p.25 / Chapter 3.2.1 --- 「虛假記憶」-也能建構自我身份 --- p.26 / Chapter 3.2.2 --- 「幻聽幻象」一也會改變歷史進程 --- p.28 / Chapter 3.2.3 --- 結論一保羅因異象而改變其人生 --- p.32 / Chapter 3.3 --- 心理學肯定異象的兩個學說 --- p.33 / Chapter 3.3.1 --- 異象在皈依過程中的角式 --- p.33 / Chapter 3.3.1.1 --- 皈依的心路歷程研究 --- p.34 / Chapter 3.3.1.2 --- 保羅皈依前期的宗教尋索´ؤ出現異象 --- p.36 / Chapter 3.3.1.3 --- 保羅皈依中期的身份重塑一思考異象 --- p.37 / Chapter 3.3.1.4 --- 保羅皈依後期的信仰反省´ؤ沈澱異象 --- p.39 / Chapter 3.3.2 --- 異象在保羅個體化之路的角式 --- p.40 / Chapter 3.3.2.1 --- 異象乃敲響心靈改變的「被動幻想」 --- p.41 / Chapter 3.3.2.2 --- 異象中的基督顯現乃協助保羅的「自我原形」 --- p.42 / Chapter 3.3.2.3 --- 異象出現的共時性乃巧妙銜接保羅個體化進程 --- p.45 / Chapter 4 --- 結語 --- p.47 / Chapter 4.1 --- 保羅未皈依時期的信仰歷程 --- p.47 / Chapter 4.2 --- 異象乃心靈成長的催化劑 --- p.48 / Chapter 5 --- 參考書目 --- p.52

Die Dissertation befasst sich mit den Registerbänden Jean Pauls. Diese stellen eine komprimierte Fassung der umfangreichen Exzerptbände dar, die auf mehr als 12.000 Seiten vorliegen. Jean Paul ordnet seine Exzerpte unter zuvor ausgewählten Oberbegriffen, und fasst diese in den Registerbänden zusammen. / The dissertation deals with Jean Paul's index volumes. These are a condensed version of his enormous collection of excerpts, which contain over 12,000 pages. Jean Paul summorized his excerpts under different topics and put these topics into index volumes.

The thrust of this thesis is encapsulated in the title – Paul, Jerusalem and the Judaisers: The Galatian Crisis in Its Broader Historical Context – which reflects the author’s insistence that reconstructing all the events surrounding the crisis that impelled Paul to compose his letter to the Galatians is essential to understanding this letter. The position taken in this study is that the Galatian crisis was initiated by a group of Judaising opponents acting under the direct authority of the Jerusalem church. The origins of this controversy can be traced back to the early dispute between the Hellenists and the Hebrews described in the Acts of the Apostles, which led to the expulsion of the Hellenists from Jerusalem and the establishment of the community in Antioch. Paul’s opponents apparently cited Jerusalem as the source of and the warrant for their Law-observant gospel. In Galatians, Paul alludes to events involving Judaising opponents that transpired in Jerusalem and Antioch prior to the outbreak of the crisis at Galatia. Thus, the immediate background of the crisis is found in the Jerusalem Council (Gal 2:1-10; Acts 15:1-35) and the Incident at Antioch (Gal 2:11-14). Turning to the conflict in Galatia itself this thesis attempts to explore the links between these earlier events and the Galatian crisis. The primary avenue for this examination will be via a consideration of Paul’s argument in Galatians. By the careful use of the mirror-reading technique, this thesis will endeavour to reconstruct the message and the origins of Paul’s opponents. The thesis concludes with a brief examination of Paul’s later conflicts with Judaising opponents at Corinth and Philippi, as well as the autobiographical material in Romans, all of which will provide an insight into the eventual outcome of the crisis in Galatia