St. Paul’s Dangerous Idea (Part 3)

Co-missioners, For the past two weeks Steve Kuhl has been exploring how St. Paul thinks about God, and how this contrasts with presumptions common to much of American Christianity. Today we send along the final section of Steve’s essay. A reminder that we extracted the essay from a longer paper Steve presented in 1997 at a workshop on the encounter …

St. Paul’s Dangerous Idea (Part 2)

Co-missioners, Today Steve Kuhl will plunge us into the scandals that lie at the heart of St. Paul’s thinking about God and his proclamation of Christ crucified. We can’t urge you strongly enough to take the time for a close and careful reading—all the more if the theological milieu you interact with regularly ignores the distinction between Law and Gospel …

St. Paul’s Dangerous Idea (Part 1)

Co-missioners, Last week we sent you a brief exhortation by the late Robert W. Bertram to let Scripture expose the deep problem with God that every hearer is caught in, and for which Christ crucified is God’s liberating solution. This week we send you the first part of a long essay in which Steven Kuhl discusses the theology Bertram had …