Philosophy And Development of Religion: Being the Gifford Lectures Delivered ... 2
Philosophy And Development of Religion: Being the Gifford Lectures Delivered ... 2
Pfleiderer, Otto, 1839-1908
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The resuscitation is thus at bottom, accord- ing to Paul, only the full realisation of that which the earthly Jesus had already been potentially — spiritual man, Son and Image of God. But the earthly Jesus could only be this, according to Paul's way of think- ing, because He sprang not from the earth but from • heaven; the heavenly pre-existence of Christ, which Paul first taught, was for him the logical postulate for the explanation of what Christ became through His death and resurrection — na...mely, the heavenly head of the community of the children of God, the well-spring of the new spiritual life of humanity. But even this doctrine of the heavenly pre-existence of Christ has its starting-point in a theory of the Alexandrian PAUL'S THEOLOGY. 163 philosophy of religion — namely, in its distinction be- tween the ideal heavenly man who is immediately created after God's image, and the earthly man who is the sensibly dimmed and sensually differentiated like- ness of that image. This theory, resting on the Pla- tonic idealism, appears even before Paul to have had an influence upon the rabbinical interpretation of Scripture, seeing that they read out of the narrative of the creation in Genesis i.
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