Disjunction in Paul: Apocalyptic or Christomorphic? Comparing the Apocalypse of Weeks with Galatians. (8th December 2017)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Williams, Logan
• Is Part Of: New Testament studies. Volume 64:Number 1(2018)
• Page Start: 64
• Page End: 80
• Publication Date: 2017-12-08
• Subjects: creatio e contrario, -- disjunction, -- apocalyptic, -- Paul, -- Galatians, -- Enoch, -- Apocalypse of Weeks; 225.05
• DOI: 10.1017/S0028688517000170
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 0028-6885

Abstract

Abstract : This article compares the Apocalypse of Weeks with Galatians to examine whether the motif of creatio e contrario is apocalyptic. While reviewing the themes of revelation, salvation and eschatology in each text, it argues that creatio e contrario is absent from and theologically foreign to the Apocalypse ; by contrast, this motif permeates Galatians, not because Paul retrieves it from the apocalypses but because for him the divine economy is shaped by the disjunctive, e contrario history of the crucified and risen Christ. Thus, creatio e contrario should be classified not as apocalyptic but as christomorphic.