A Wonderful Opportunity to See a Scholarly Editor (Troels Engberg-Pedersen) Talk about Paul’s Christ in a Graeco-Roman Context
I came across this scholar when writing my book.
Troels Enberg-Pedersen was a co-editor of the book Stoicism in Early Christianity that made it into my research and bibliography.
I am excited to post this thread and to learn more from this distinguished scholar.
This interview will be a source for us to make edifying comments and have edifying exchanges about this subject matter.
Thank you.
I have to pick up at 15:43 / 1:31:48.
Troels Engberg-Pedersen
A philosophical mindset was a characteristic of Hellenism.
In places, Paul had a philosophical mindset and it was not unlike Philo. He didn’t see himself as a philosopher: he worked as a philosopher.
One philosophy in that period is more relevant for understanding Paul is Stoicism rather than Middle Platonism.
There are elements of Epicureanism that are relevant to Christianity. But, Platonism returned in the first century C.E.
The Stoics reacted against Plato (dualism).
Paul’s resurrection body could eat as an earthly body could eat, ergo, Paul is like a Stoic moving away from dualism.
Flesh and blood cannot be resurrected.
So, if you want to understand Paul, Stoicism is the best place to go.
IMPORTANT: Pneuma See: “The Bodily Pneuma in Paul”
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