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Das, A. Andrew Arrived in United States of America, 1967.
(The now familiar “new perspective” asserts that the “c...)
The now familiar “new perspective” asserts that the “covenantal nomism” characteristic of second-temple Judaism softened the Mosaic law’s requirement of perfect obedience. Because of God’s gracious covenant with Israel, manifested in election and the provision of atoning sacrifices, one could be righteous under the law despite occasional failures to obey the law perfectly. This view concludes that Paul, as a first-century Jew, could not have been troubled by the law’s stringent demands, because it was generally understood that the gracious framework of the covenant provided a way of dealing with occasional lapses. Consequently, it is claimed, Paul’s problem with the law must have to do with its misuse as a means of enforcing ethnic boundaries and excluding Gentile believers. However, as Das demonstrates in this book, whenever the gracious framework of covenantal nomism is called into question, the law’s demands take on central importance. Das traces this development in a number of second-temple Jewish works and especially in the writings of Paul. “Covenantal nomism” is probably an apt characterization of Paul’s opponents, and indeed of Paul’s past life; thus he can assert that formerly he was “blameless” under the law. But now Paul sees God’s grace as active only in Christ. He emphatically denies that God will show special grace in his judgment of Jews; to do so would be favoritism. Similarly, Paul sees no atoning benefit to the sacrificial system. In effect, Paul is no longer a “covenantal nomist.” Since the gracious framework of the covenant has collapsed, all that remains for Paul is the law, with its oppressive requirement of perfect obedience and ethnic exclusivism. Contra the "new perspective," the "works of the law" should not be construed so narrowly as only the law's ethnic exclusivity. Christ is "the end" of the law in general, both in the sense that he is the goal to which the law always pointed, and in that he is the sole agent of God's grace apart from which the law's demands would be impossible.
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Scholars have long debated the "double character" of Romans. Why did Paul address a long discussion of Jewish themes to a Gentile audience? Das provides a fresh understanding of the identity and attitudes of the Gentile Christians in Rome and of the expulsion of Jews from Rome under the emperor Claudius. His reading offers new insight into Paul's concern for the Jewish roots of the Christ movement.
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First published twenty years ago, this revised edition of John Sanford's classic exploration of the psychological and spiritual significance of dreams draws on the work of C.G. Jung to show how dreams can help us find healing and wholeness and reconnect us to a living spiritual world. Featuring a new preface by the author and using case histories from his own experience as a counselor, Dreams traces the role of dreams in the Bible, analyzing their nature and examining how Christians, through fear and the constraints of dogma, have come to reject the visions through which God speaks to humanity, making dreams -- in Sanford's words -- "God's forgotten language."
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The latest book in the Library of Pauline Studies series, Paul and the Jews examines the question, "How did Paul's thinking compare with that of the Jews of his time? " By providing a survey of the scholarly views on this question, Andrew Das offers the beginning Pauline student an entrance into the interesting world of Pauline studies and then presents his own conclusions to this pivotal question.
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(First Published in 1899 this is reprint edition of the ol...)
First Published in 1899 this is reprint edition of the old book, printed in hard bound edition having coloured dust cover. There is no change in the text published in the original edition long back.
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religious studies educator writer
Das, A. Andrew Arrived in United States of America, 1967.
Bachelor, DePauw University, Greencastle, Indiana, 1987. Master of Divinity, Concordia Theological Seminary, Fort Wayne, Indiana, 1991. Master of Sacred Theology, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut, 1992.
Doctor of Philosophy, Union Theological Seminary, Richmond, Virginia, 1999.
Professor Elmhurst College, Illinois, since 1999.
(The latest book in the Library of Pauline Studies series,...)
(The now familiar “new perspective” asserts that the “c...)
( First published twenty years ago, this revised edition ...)
(First Published in 1899 this is reprint edition of the ol...)
(Scholars have long debated the "double character" of Roma...)
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Eagle scout Boy Scouts American, 1982. Pastor Trinity Lutheran Church, Lombard, Illinois, 2000—2003. Member of Evangelical Theological Society, Catholic Biblical Association American, Society Biblical Literature, Theta Alpha Kappa, Phi Kappa Phi.