This Article Abstract Free Full Text (Free PDF) Free Alert me when this article is cited Alert me if a correction is posted Services Email this article to a friend Similar articles in this journal Alert me to new issues of the journal Add to Saved Citations Download to citation manager Request Permissions Request Reprints Add to My Marked Citations Citing Articles Citing Articles via Google Scholar Google Scholar Articles by Engberg-Pedersen, T. Search for Related Content Social Bookmarking                   What's this?

Paul’s Stoicizing Politics in Romans 12-13: The Role of 13.1-10 in the Argument

Department of Biblical Exegesis, University of Copenhagen Koebmagergade 46, DK-1150 Copenhagen K, Denmark, tep{at}teol.ku.dk

This article argues for the intrinsic coherence of Rom. 12-13 by considering the meaning of the transitions between the various sections of the text. In this light, the article proposes an understanding of Paul’s politics that draws on Stoic ideas in two important places: 13.1-7 (compared with Seneca, De Clementia 1.1-4) and the transition between 13.7 and 13.8 (drawing on the Stoic and Pauline idea of (see pdf for character), ‘as if not’). As a formula for Paul’s Stoicizing politics in Rom. 12-13, the note suggests the following: engagement in this world and disengagement from it but total engagement elsewhere.

Key Words: Paul • Stoicism • Seneca • Romans 12-13

References

• Byrne, B., SJ 1996 Romans ( Sacra Pagina, 6; Collegeville, MN: The Liturgical Press) .
• Downing, F. G. 1998 Cynics, Paul and the Pauline Churches: Cynics and Christian Origins II ( London: Routledge) .
• Engberg-Pedersen, T. 2000 Paul and the Stoics ( Edinburgh: T&T Clark; Louisville, KY: Westminster/John Knox) .
• Jennings, T. W., Jr 2006 Reading Derrida/Thinking Paul: On Justice ( Stanford: Stanford University Press) .
• Taubes, J. 2004 The Political Theology of Paul ( Stanford: Stanford University Press) .
• Wilson, W. T. 1991 Love without Pretense: Romans 12.9-21 and Hellenistic-Jewish Wisdom Literature (WUNT, 2/46; Tübingen: J.C.B. Mohr [Paul Siebeck] ).

CiteULike

Connotea

Del.icio.us

Digg

Reddit

Technorati

This Article Abstract Free Full Text (Free PDF) Free Alert me when this article is cited Alert me if a correction is posted Services Email this article to a friend Similar articles in this journal Alert me to new issues of the journal Add to Saved Citations Download to citation manager Request Permissions Request Reprints Add to My Marked Citations Citing Articles Citing Articles via Google Scholar Google Scholar Articles by Engberg-Pedersen, T. Search for Related Content Social Bookmarking                   What's this?