The
History of the Interpretation of the Apostle Paul
By
Dr. Peter M. Head [Web Page]
Lecture
One: The
Interpretation of Paul in the Early Church (Marcion, Gnostics, Irenaeus)
Lecture
Two: Patristic
Commentators (Origen, Chrysostom, Theodore, Jerome, Augustine)
Lecture
Three: Medieval
Interpreters and Martin Luther (focus on Luther)
Lecture
Four: Ferdinand
Christian Baur
Lecture
Five: A.
Schweitzer [preliminary text]
Lecture
Six: Rudolf
Bultmann
Lecture
Seven: Ed
Parish Sanders
Lecture
Eight:: Responses
to New Perspective
Cambridge
PhD Seminar: Justification
and Variegated Nomism
Patristic
and Reformation Commentaries on Galatians
This web
site began in connection with a series of lectures I gave on this subject in
the Divinity Faculty, University of Cambridge, Lent term 2001. It has since
then taken on a life of its own, although it has had only limited attention
from me since then. Several sections were updated in December 2001 (at which
point I also began counting visitors). A new link to a Graduate Seminar on
Justification and Variegated Nomism was added in January 2002. Sections of Lecture
One were updated in February 2002 (in connection with another lecture). We hit
1,000 visitors on April 11th 2002. Augustine Bibliography updated
19.4.02 (Lecture Two). First draft version of Lecture Five on Albert Schweitzer
added June 21st 2002.
Future
plans: I would like to incorporate the reading assignments and discussion questions
which accompanied the lectures. I would also like to bring the Schweitzer page
on-line (a colleague writing a book on Schweitzer gave the lecture). I am also
gathering some additional material on reformation approaches to Paul
(specifically Melanchthon and Calvin) which I hope to insert. Suggestions are
very welcome (esp. bibliography and links). The limitations of lecture eight
and the desirability of a reasonable taxonomy of Pauline scholarship as it
presently is weigh heavily upon me. To contact me: pmh15@cam.ac.uk
The initial
eight lectures were planned in dialogue with participants in Corpus
Paulinum (an email discussion group for the ‘scholarly discussion and
evaluation of critical questions surrounding the life, influence, teaching,
theology, and the writings of the Apostle Paul’). To follow the evolution of the programme track
the thread from the first post (Mon, 30 Oct
2000) through the Archives.
The
History of the Interpretation of the Apostle Paul
By
Dr. Peter M. Head [Web Page]