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Verheißung und Erfüllung im Lichte paulinischer Theologie

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  17 May 2001

THOMAS SÖDING
THOMAS SÖDING
Affiliation:
Bergische Universität, Katholisch-Theologisches Seminar, Gaußstrasse 20, D-42097 Wuppertal, Germany
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Abstract

Paul is the first author of the NT who stresses the central biblical-theological theme of ‘promise and fulfilment’. He is doing so as apostle of the righteousness of God: the One God remains true to Himself as the ‘God of hope’ (Rom 15.13); sending His son to save the world of sinners He says his ‘Yes’ to all He has given in His grace to His people (2 Cor. 1.20), and He creates the eschatological act of redemption which is radically new in opening the Kingdom of God (Rom 14.17). In the horizon of his theology of justification, Paul discovers what God has promised to Abraham; in the horizon of his theology of promise, he discovers what God fulfils in justifying Jews and Gentiles by their faith. Paul's theology, maturing from Galatians to Romans, gives a good measure for Christian talk of promise and fulfilment in dialogue with the Jews.

Type
Research Article
Information
New Testament Studies , Volume 47 , Issue 2 , April 2001 , pp. 146 - 170
Copyright
© 2001 Cambridge University Press

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Footnotes

Ausgearbeitete Fassung eines Vortrags im Seminar ‘Inhalte und Probleme einer neutestamentlichen Theologie’ am 3. August 2000 in Tel Aviv.