| 词条 | Participation in Christ |
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Paul's theology centers on a participation in Christ, in which one partakes in salvation by dying and rising with. While this theology was interpreted as mysticism by Albert Schweitzer, according to the New Perspective on Paul, as initiated by E.P. Sanders, it is more aptly viewed as a salvation theology. Albert SchweitzerAlbert Schweitzer "argued that redemption for Paul meant deliverance from hostile angelic powers and that justification by faith was but a 'subsidiary' element of his thought. For Schweitzer, the heart of Paul’s theology lay in his 'mysticism': redemption takes place when one is united with Christ through baptism, thus participating (in a real, not merely metaphoric, sense) in his death and resurrection.[1]This 'Pauline mysticism' is not about "being one with God or being in God,"[2] and sonship to God is not conceived as "an immediate mystical relation to God, but as mediated and effected by means of a mystical union with Christ".[3] According to Schweitzer, Paul saw human beings to enter into relation with God by dying and rising with Christ, being set free from sin and the Law, and possessing the Spirit of Christ. Paul emphasizes justification by faith alone (Sola fide) in the Epistle to the Romans. Christ's death is portrayed as a sin offering, which erases sin and makes God's forgiveness possible. This "righteousness by faith" is individualistic, and it does not lead to an ethical theory. New Perspective on Paul{{Main|New Perspective on Paul}}These views on Paul have been challenged by the socalled "New Perspective on Paul," as initiated by E.P. Sanders. According to Sanders, the historical understanding of Second Temple Judaism had been incorrect, drawing a mistaken oppostion between "faith" and "works." Paul's insistence of faith stems from this Second Temple Judaism, in which the convenant with God was maintained by observing the Law ("works"), but was given by God to his chosen people as an act of faith. For Paul, Jesus death and rising were a solution the problem of the inclusion of Gnetile Torah-observers into the convenant. By definition, those Gentiles were "sinners," who could not enter the convenant by observing the Law. Yet, God had entered this evil world through Jesus, to redeem it; by faith in, or through, Jesus, and participating in his death and rising, Jews and gentiles alike were redeemed.{{sfn|Mack|1997}}{{sfn|Charry|1999|p=35-36}} Accoding to Charry, {{quote|...this participation is not union in a cosmic sense, as Schweitzer thought, but a transfer of lordship in which, by belonging to or participating in Christ, one receives forgiveness for past offences, is liberated from the powers of sin, and receives the Spirit. A consequence, but not the goal, of this particiaption is righteous living.{{sfn|Charry|1999|p=35-36}}}}See also
References1. ^Stephen Westerholm (2015), The New Perspective on Paul in Review], Direction, Spring 2015 · Vol. 44 No. 1 · pp. 4–15 2. ^Schweitzer, 1930, 3 3. ^Boston Collaborative Encyclopedia of Western Theology, Albert Schweitzer Sources
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