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Before First
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Jerusalem Visit |
• Resurrection appearance
• Visit to Arabia
• Return to Damascus |
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• Jerusalem Visit (1)
(3 years after return to Damascus)
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From First
Jerusalem Visit to
(Fourteen
Founding
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Second Jerusalem Visit
Years)
Visits
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• Syria and Cilicia
• Illness
• Founding of congregations in Galatia.
• Founding of church at Philippi
• Founding of church at Thessalonica
» Aid from Philippi
• Visits Athens
» Timothy sent to Thessalonica
• Founding of church at Corinth
» Aid from Macedonia
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» Travel plan:
to visit Thessalonica [delayed]; instead:
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THESSALONIANS written
Noteworthy theme: an early stage of Paul’s end-of-time
teaching
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• Jerusalem Visit (2)
(after 14 years)
= (for the Jerusalem Conference)
» Approval of gentile mission without requirements of the
law
» Division of responsibility: the dual mission, approved
» Collection agreed to |
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From Jerusalem Visit (2)
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to Jerusalem Visit (3)
Four Years)
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• Antioch: Defends interdining
• “Latter” visit to Galatia [?]
» Begins collection
• Founding visit, Ephesus
» Ephesus, as “Headquarters”
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» Titus sent to Corinth (first visit), to begin
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» LETTER P, the Previous Letter,
to Corinth
The problem of immoral
people
Time for the collection! |
» Information from Corinth
(divisions, questions, etc.)
» Paul, fighting with beasts |
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» The LETTER L, the “Laundry List of Problems”
Letter to Corinth (= 1 Corinthians)
Noteworthy themes: .. The paradox
of the cross .. The church as organism .. the agapê principle ..
Christology .. resurrection
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Travel plans: Ephesus/ Macedonia/
Corinth; Paul plans to winter in Corinth |
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• Crisis in Galatia
Lapse of
the collection in Galatia
[No travel plans, for
Galatia!]
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» GALATIANS
Noteworthy themes: Justification
by faith .. Christology .. the principle
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• Imprisonment
[in Ephesus]
» Epaphroditus arrives from Philippi
Travel plans: to
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» PHILIPPIANS
Noteworthy themes:
end-of-time views .. justification by faith ..
Christology |
» Onesimus appears
Travel plans:
to visit Philemon |
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» PHILEMON
Pleads the
case of Onesimus, an escaped slave |
• Release from prison
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• Crisis in Corinth: Super-apostles arrive
Lapse of work on collection
in Corinth
Revised
travel plans #1:
Ephesus/ Corinth/ Macedonia/ Corinth
• Intermediate visit to Corinth
» Offence against Paul, his humiliation
• Return to Ephesus
Revised
travel plans #2: Ephesus/
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• Back in Ephesus
» LETTER H is sent
in care of Titus (his second visit)
Titus will meet Paul in
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Paul writes LETTER
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the Harsh Letter to
Corinth (= 2 Corinthians 10–13)
Paul’s mystical experience .. grace sufficient
.. personal reflections
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• Paul’s
escape from death in Asia
• Departure for Troas [possibly, via Colossae, to visit
Philemon]
» Successful work in Troas, but Paul becomes
impatient when Titus does not appear.
• Departure for Macedonia, to meet Titus
• In Macedonia:
» “fighting without and fear within”
» Arrival of Titus with welcome news of reconciliation in
Corinth
» Work on collection in Macedonia |
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The R-LETTER to Corinth, the Letter of
Reconciliation
(= 2 Corinthians 1–9)
Noteworthy themes:
Christology and atonement .. end-of-time thinking revised
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» The R-LETTER is carried by Titus (third visit), who is also
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» [If 2 Corinthians 9 is a separate letter from
2 Corinthians 1-8,] the F-LETTER, the “Follow-up” Letter,
to Corinth (= 2 Corinthians 9) |
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» Completion of collection in Macedonia
» Departure for Corinth |
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• Third visit to Corinth
» Completion of collection in Corinth
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» Composition of ROMANS.
Noteworthy themes:
the righteousness of God .. reason in theology .. human sin .. salvation
language .. Christology .. the Holy Spirit .. Israel, past and future ..
moral issues |
Travel plans:
To Jerusalem, to deliver the collection
To Rome
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• Jerusalem Visit (3)
(3-4 years since Visit 2 [estimated])
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Pauline Legacy.
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