The Gospel of Paul and the Gospel of the Kingdom
Justin Taylor Blog | May 24, 2012
"The concern in this chapter is with the extent to which Paul's gospel is the same as, or represents a radical departure from, that of the Gospel writers and the other apostles."
Gathercole identifies three central aspects of the gospel message---"the core of the euangelion according to Paul"---found in the Pauline epistles:
(1) who Jesus is, with particular reference to his identity as royal Messiah and son of God;
(2) his work of atonement and justification accomplished in the cross and resurrection, and
(3) Jesus' work of new creation and of rescue from the power of sin.
The gospel according to Paul, Gathercole writes, "is simultaneously an affirmation of who Jesus is as well as of what he has done." Gathercole defines the gospel in the Paul materials as "God's account of his saving activity in Jesus the Messiah, in which, by Jesus' death and resurrection, he atones for sin and brings new creation."
He then turns to the synoptic material and works through these three themes of
(1) Messiahship
(2) Jesus' death for the many
(3) The conquest of the demonic realm and the reign of God
You can read the whole thing here.
Comments:
May 25, 2012 at 04:28 PM
This is really good! I enjoyed reading it.
May 24, 2012 at 09:20 PM
[...] and Catholicism, esp. his Too catholic to be Catholic and the respond here.Over at TGC, Tim Keller endorses Simon Gathercole’s essay on the Kingdom of God. And Justin Taylor promises us a book that [...]
May 24, 2012 at 01:31 PM
This paper is a great read!
I found it refreshing because it takes down 'Messiahship vs Justification' type rhetoric. Why should we ever have to choose between Jesus as King or as Saviour?
JT, thanks again for the heads up on good material!
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May 31, 2012 at 02:27 AM
[...] I want to highlight two resources, one of which I only recently learned about. First, I highly recommend Tim Keller’s (free!) talk, appropriately called “What Is the Gospel?” My coblogger, Brian, recommended it to me with this sales pitch: ‘it was like hearing the gospel for the first time!’ The second, recommended by Keller, is an essay by NT scholar Simon Gathercole called “The Gospel of Paul and the Gospel of the Kingdom” (this is a pdf, HT: JT). [...]