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This new commentary in the New Testament Library series is not a
systematic study of Pauline theology; rather, the aim of this study
is to trace Paul's theology as it unfolds in his letter to the
church at Galatia, and to attempt to illuminate, as far as
possible, how the Galatians likely comprehended it, at the time
they received it. The author asks readers to imagine themselves as
silent witnesses to Paul's dictation of the letter and to observe,
through a historical perspective, how the Galatian Christians might
have understood Paul's words.
Taking the work of Ernst Kasemann and J. Christiaan Beker as a
point of departure, Martinus C. de Boer argues that the meaning of
'death' in 1 Corinthians 15 and Romans 5 provides the basic clue to
any proper definition of Paul's apocalyptic eschatology. At the
same time, he also maintains that Paul's apocalyptic eschatology,
whose point of departure is the crucified and resurrected Christ,
provides the basic clue to what 'death' means in his theology. A
proper definition of Paul's apocalyptic eschatology in relation to
what 'death' means for the apostle can in turn help us to
understand better the soteriological tension between 'already' and
'not yet' evident in his thought. Boer's work builds on the
contributions of other interpreters of Paul, most notably, Albert
Schweitzer, Kasemann, J. Louis Martyn, and Beker. Rather than posit
some radically new definition of Paul's apocalyptic eschatology, or
attributing to him previously unperceived understandings of
'death', Boer instead explores the ways in what Paul says about
'death' serves to define his apocalyptic eschatology on the one
side, and that his christologically determined apocalyptic
eschatology informs his understanding of death on the other.
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