Calling and conscience : Paul as an example

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dc.contributor.author Malan, Gert Jacobus
dc.date.accessioned 2024-12-09T10:57:42Z
dc.date.available 2024-12-09T10:57:42Z
dc.date.issued 2024-07
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dc.description.abstract Paul’s calling presents a conundrum to which many have proposed varied solutions. Not trying to solve the conundrum in toto, this study investigates the existential dynamics of Paul’s calling as narrated to the Galatians within the context of their apostasy. The model used is Heidegger’s understanding of conscience as a call towards authenticity and away from inauthenticity. Rhetorical analysis assists in identifying Paul’s new understanding of authenticity, by analysing the propositio, especially its expositio, which contains soteriological peculiar existential first-person singular expressions. Paul’s preaching of his gospel and his letter to the Galatians are in turn also to them, a call to authenticity and away from inauthenticity. His preaching thus resembles the phenomenological idea of conscience. Thus, Paul’s gospel cannot be separated from his calling. Both are about the same understanding of authenticity. It is at the same time a new self-understanding: to have been crucified with Christ and therefore Christ living in him and the faithful (Gl 2:19–20). This is a concise formula of soteriology as symbolised in baptism. Such calling is never completed: it remains a dynamic process, a tension and movement between authenticity and inauthenticity. This is reflected in the Galatian apostasy and Paul’s letter calling them back to authenticity. The study underlines the crucial importance of soteriology for kerygma and baptism, but especially for understanding a person’s call to faith or ministry. INTRADISCIPLINARY AND/OR INTERDISCIPLINARY IMPLICATIONS : The model is suitable for studying the religious phenomenon of calling in religious texts and in life. en_US
dc.description.department New Testament Studies en_US
dc.description.librarian am2024 en_US
dc.description.sdg None en_US
dc.description.uri http://www.ve.org.za en_US
dc.identifier.citation Malan, G.J., 2024, ‘Calling and conscience: Paul as an example’, Verbum et Ecclesia 45(1), a3150. https://DOI.org/10.4102/ve.v45i1.3150. en_US
dc.identifier.issn 1609-9982 (print)
dc.identifier.issn 2074-7705 (online)
dc.identifier.other 10.4102/ve.v45i1.3150
dc.identifier.uri http://hdl.handle.net/2263/99800
dc.language.iso en en_US
dc.publisher AOSIS Open Journals en_US
dc.rights © 2024. The Author. Licensee: AOSIS. This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution License. en_US
dc.subject Calling en_US
dc.subject Conscience en_US
dc.subject Paul en_US
dc.subject Heidegger en_US
dc.subject Authentic existence en_US
dc.subject Galatians en_US
dc.subject Hellenistic-Christianity en_US
dc.subject Jewish-Christianity en_US
dc.subject Soteriology en_US
dc.title Calling and conscience : Paul as an example en_US
dc.type Article en_US


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