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God and the world in the epistles of Paul

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Wolter, Michael

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Paul is not interested in cosmological thinking in the proper sense of the word. This article starts by questioning the cosmological language of biblical writings. The authors of the books of the New Testament mostly use terms they found in the Septuagint – with a few remarkable exceptions. This article described how the specific term κόσμος has been used by the New Testament authors. There are two main usages of κόσμος: (1) as an anthropological term to describes mankind in its entirety; and (2) as an ecclesiological term to describes ‘the others’, that is the non-believers or the people outside the church. This is the reason why God is never called ‘the king of the world’; he is only its judge.

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Wolter, M. 2013. God and the world in the epistles of Paul. In die Skriflig. 47(2):1-7. [http://www.inluceverbi.org.za/index.php/skriflig]

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