"O FOOLISH
GALATIANS, WHO HATH BEWITCHED YOU, THAT YE SHOULD NOT OBEY THE TRUTH, BEFORE WHOSE EYES JESUS CHRIST HATH BEEN EVIDENTLY SET FORTH, CRUCIFIED AMONG YOU?"
Relating
Galatians to Christian life today for faithful Catholics, this study is supplemented by features specifically designed to help pastoral ministers, lay readers, and New Testament students understand the Bible more deeply and use it more effectively.
In a revision of his 2018 PhD dissertation at McMaster Divinity College, Yoon outlines discourse analysis from the framework of systemic functional linguistics for analyzing Paul's letter to the
Galatians. His goal is to determine whether the context of situation better reflects the New Perspective on Paul, covenantal nomism, or the more traditional perspective of legalism.
In advance of the conversation, I meditated on the fruit of the Spirit (
Galatians 5:22-23) and discovered that as I let the words "love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, and self-control" replay in my mind, calmness settled in.
Galatians and Romans may be more different than she allows; Paul certainly could have changed his mind or tone on certain issues over the course of his epistolary career.
Between these two alternatives, the
Galatians are hesitating.
The Reformers, of course, were drawn to
Galatians above all by Paul's formulation of the doctrine of justification by faith, a doctrine to which they appealed as a soteriological corrective.
For instance, he carefully demonstrates Paul's logic in
Galatians 4:1-11, where Paul attempts to dissuade the
Galatians from taking on the practice of Jewish laws.
Synopsis: In "
Galatians" (the newest volume in the outstanding Baker Academics 'Paideia Commentaries on the New Testament series), respected New Testament scholar Peter Oakes (Greenwood Senior Lecturer in the New Testament at the University of Manchester) offers a translation and reading of
Galatians as presenting a gospel of unity in diversity in Christ.
It is against this background that the hermeneutical interrogation of
Galatians 3:28 in relation to the status of women in the Church of Christ will possibly give insight on the implication of Paul's teachings when he said that: "In Christ, there is no difference between Jew and Greek, slave and free person, male and female'.
In conclusion, let me quote from
Galatians 6:1-2: "Brethren, if someone is overtaken in any trespass, you who are spiritual restore such a one in a spirit of gentleness, considering yourself lest you also be tempted.