The understanding of God at the basis of Pauline Theology

From: The Catholic Biblical Quarterly | Date: October 1, 2003| Author: | Copyright information

IN MY ARTICLE "The Center of Pauline Theology" (1989),1 I suggested that, in Pauline writings, the theological center is God's salvific action in Christ's death and resurrection together with the acknowledgment of Christ as the transcendent Son of God.2 I made use of J. Christiaan Beker's coherence-contingency scheme, outlined in his book Paul the Apostle (1980), as the appropriate hermeneutical tool for discovering Paul's basic message in its contingent applications.3 Eleven years later, in his article "Recasting Pauline Theology: The Coherence-Contingency Scheme," Beker modified somewhat ...

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