fadengeheftete Broschur 64,00 € Verö entlicht auf Englisch. Ben C. Dunson untersucht die Beziehung zwischen Einzelpersonen und der Gemeinde in den Paulusbriefen. Er analysiert die bestehenden wissenschaftlichen Meinungen zu diesem Thema, wobei er ein besonderes Augenmerk auf die ein ussreiche Debatte bezüglich der Rolle der Anthropologie im paulinischen Gedankengut legt, die im 20. Jahrhundert zwischen Rudolf Bultmann und Ernst Käsemann geführt wurde. Diese Diskussion hat die Richtung, die die heutige Forschung zu den Paulusbriefen eingeschlagen hat, maßgeblich beein usst. Indem er die Ideen des Paulus mit denen des Stoikers und Philosophen Epictetus vergleicht und sie ihnen gegenüberstellt, zeigt der Autor, dass der Einzelne und die Gemeinde eng verzahnte Leitbilder im paulinischen Denken sind. Das gilt, obwohl es in der paulinischen Forschung eine Entwicklung dahingehend gibt, das Motiv der Gemeinde gegen das des Einzelnen auszuspielen. Dunson behauptet, dass es vielfältige Möglichkeiten gibt, Einzelpersonen in den Briefen an die Römer zu beschreiben, und außerdem, dass zentrale Motive (Glaube, Einstellung, Kirche, etc.) in den Paulusbriefen nur dann Sinn ergeben, wenn Individuum und Gemeinde in ihrer untrennbaren Einheit gesehen werden.
Over the last half-century communal aspects of Paul’s thought have gained increasing prominence over against individual facets of his theology. Accordingly, many scholars have sought to overturn what they perceive to be an ‘individualistic’ understanding of Pauline faith, replacing it with various alternatives, ranging from faith as participation in Christ, to faith as communal edification. Others have maintained that a classic definition of faith as belief in Christ overrides communal concerns. In light of these debates, this article—based on an exegetical investigation of the clearest statement of Paul’s faith-righteousness language in Romans (namely Rom. 10.6-13) and on the phrase ‘measure of faith’ in Rom. 12.3—contends that faith is the means through which individuals find salvation, but also that faith cannot be understood merely as such; it also plays an indispensable role in building up the communities of Paul’s addressees and in fostering a new communal identity in Christ.
Rudolf Bultmann’s existential approach to New Testament theology found many supporters in the twentieth century. It also provoked a forceful response from his student Ernst Käsemann, who insisted that Bultmann’s individualizing interpretation, especially of Paul, was defective on exegetical, theological and philosophical grounds, because it ignored Paul’s cosmic and communal theology. The debate between these two scholars has been furthered quite vigorously in subsequent Pauline scholarship. Most scholars have followed Käsemann’s lead (directly or not) in reading Paul in a comprehensively, and, often, exclusively communal fashion. However, recent voices have questioned whether the communal reaction against Bultmannian existentialism may be one-sided, and may obscure other, equally important facets of Paul’s thought. This article surveys the debate between Bultmann and Käsemann, and the trajectories it has taken since, with special attention directed towards the most pressing interpretive issues related to the place of the individual and community in Pauline thought.
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