The Love Commandment in the Authentic Pauline Letters and Ephesians 5:2: An Intertextual Study in the Development of Agape Ethics in the Pauline Corpus

Matthias Konradt

Chapter 11 The Love Commandment in the Authentic Pauline Letters and Ephesians 5:2: An Intertextual Study in the Development of Agape Ethics in the Pauline Corpus

In: âTo Recover What Has Been Lostâ: Essays on Eschatology, Intertextuality, and Reception History in Honor of Dale C. Allison Jr.

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Matthias Konradt

Matthias Konradt Ruprecht-Karls-UniversitÃ¤t Heidelberg Germany

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This essay analyses the development of agape ethics in Pauline tradition as it is evidenced by the authentic Pauline letters and the deutero-Pauline Epistle to the Ephesians. While the emphasis on agape appears as practically a universal signum of early Christian ethics, it is characteristic of Paulâs letters that agape does not just occur as the core of the instructional material Paul handed down to his congregations. Rather, the ethical argumentations in Pauline letters give evidence of Paulâs strong ability to apply agape as the guiding principle of Christian social behavior to concrete ethical issues among his addressees and, thereby, to deepen the understanding of agape christologically by referring to the âpro-existenceâ of Christ as a model of love. But in Paulâs letters, the christological rationale did not yet transform the general paraklesis. In the process of the christological expansion and transformation of the agape concept in the Pauline tradition, it is not until Eph 5:2 that we find a concise, christologically founded admonition to agape as part of the general paraklesis.

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âTo Recover What Has Been Lostâ: Essays on Eschatology, Intertextuality, and Reception History in Honor of Dale C. Allison Jr.

Series:Â Novum Testamentum, Supplements, Volume: 183

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