No other single reference work presents as much information focused exclusively on Pauline theology, literature, background and scholarship. In a field that recently has undergone significant shifts in perspective, the Dictionary of Paul and His Letters offers a summa of Paul and Pauline studies.

Table of Contents

• Preface
• How to Use This Dictionary
• Abbreviations
• Transliteration
• List of Contributors
• A
• ABRAHAM
• ADAM AND CHRIST
• ADOPTION, SONSHIP
• AFFLICTIONS, TRIALS, HARDSHIPS
• ANGELS, ARCHANGELS
• ANTIOCH ON THE ORONTES
• APOCALYPTICISM
• APOCRYPHAL PAULINE LITERATURE
• APOLLOS
• APOSTASY, FALLING AWAY, PERSEVERANCE
• APOSTLE
• ATHENS, PAUL AT
• AUTHORITY
• B
• BAPTISM
• BARNABAS
• BENEDICTION, BLESSING, DOXOLOGY, THANKSGIVING
• BODY
• BODY OF CHRIST
• C
• CAESAR'S HOUSEHOLD, IMPERIAL HOUSEHOLD
• CALL, CALLING
• CANON
• CENTER OF PAUL'S THEOLOGY
• CHRIST
• CHRISTOLOGY
• CHRONOLOGY OF PAUL
• CHURCH
• CHURCH ORDER AND GOVERNMENT
• CIRCUMCISION
• CITIZENSHIP, ROMAN AND HEAVENLY
• CIVIL AUTHORITY
• COLLECTION FOR THE SAINTS
• COLOSSIANS, LETTER TO THE
• CONSCIENCE
• CONVERSION AND CALL OF PAUL
• CORINTHIANS, LETTERS TO THE
• COVENANT AND NEW COVENANT
• COWORKERS, PAUL AND HIS
• CREATION AND NEW CREATION
• CREED
• CROSS, THEOLOGY OF THE
• CRUCIFIXION
• CURSE, ACCURSED, ANATHEMA
• D
• DEATH OF CHRIST
• DEMONS AND EXORCISM
• DIASPORA
• DIATRIBE
• DISCIPLINE
• DYING AND RISING WITH CHRIST
• E
• EARLY CATHOLICISM
• ELECTION AND PREDESTINATION
• ELEMENTS/ELEMENTAL SPIRITS OF THE WORLD
• EMPERORS, ROMAN
• ENEMY, ENMITY, HATRED
• EPHESIANS, LETTER TO THE
• EPHESUS
• ESCHATOLOGY
• ETHICS
• EXALTATION AND ENTHRONEMENT
• EXPIATION, PROPITIATION, MERCY SEAT
• F
• FAITH
• FEAR, REVERENCE
• FELLOWSHIP, COMMUNION, SHARING
• FINANCIAL SUPPORT
• FIRST FRUITS, DOWN PAYMENT
• FIRSTBORN
• FLESH
• FOOD OFFERED TO IDOLS AND JEWISH FOOD LAWS
• FOREKNOWLEDGE, DIVINE
• FORGIVENESS
• FREEDOM/LIBERTY
• FRUIT OF THE SPIRIT
• FULLNESS
• FUTILITY
• G
• GALATIANS, LETTER TO THE
• GENTILES
• GIFTS OF THE SPIRIT
• GLORY, GLORIFICATION
• GNOSIS, GNOSTICISM
• GOD
• GOSPEL
• GRACE
• H
• HEAD
• HEAD, CHRIST AS
• HEALING, ILLNESS
• HEAVEN, HEAVENLIES, PARADISE
• HELLENISM
• HERMENEUTICS/INTERPRETING PAUL
• HOLINESS, SANCTIFICATION
• HOLY DAYS
• HOLY SPIRIT
• HOMOSEXUALITY
• HOPE
• HOUSEHOLDS AND HOUSEHOLD CODES
• HYMNS, HYMN FRAGMENTS, SONGS, SPIRITUAL SONGS
• I
• IDOLATRY
• IMAGE OF GOD
• IMITATION OF PAUL/OF CHRIST
• IMMORTALITY
• IN CHRIST
• INTERCESSION
• INTERMEDIATE STATE
• ISRAEL
• ITINERARIES, TRAVEL PLANS, JOURNEYS, APOSTOLIC PAROUSIA
• Paul's Itinerary
• J
• JAMES AND PAUL
• JEALOUSY, ZEAL
• JERUSALEM
• JESUS, SAYINGS OF
• JESUS AND PAUL
• JEW, PAUL THE
• JOY
• JUDAIZERS
• JUDGMENT
• JUSTIFICATION
• K
• KINGDOM OF GOD/CHRIST
• KNOWLEDGE, GIFT OF KNOWLEDGE
• L
• LAW
• LAW OF CHRIST
• LAWSUIT
• LEGAL SYSTEM, ROMAN
• LETTERS, LETTER FORMS
• LIFE AND DEATH
• LIGHT AND DARKNESS
• LITURGICAL ELEMENTS
• LORD
• LORD'S SUPPER
• LOVE
• LOVE FEAST
• M
• MAGIC
• MAN AND WOMAN
• MAN OF LAWLESSNESS AND RESTRAINING POWER
• MARRIAGE AND DIVORCE, ADULTERY AND INCEST
• MERCY
• MINISTRY
• MISSION
• MOSES
• MYSTERY
• MYSTICISM
• N
• NAME
• NEW NATURE AND OLD NATURE
• O
• OLD TESTAMENT IN PAUL
• OLIVE TREE
• OPPONENTS OF PAUL
• P
• PASTOR, PAUL AS
• PASTORAL LETTERS
• PAUL AND HIS INTERPRETERS
• PAUL IN ACTS AND LETTERS
• PAUL IN EARLY CHURCH TRADITION
• PEACE, RECONCILIATION
• PERFECT, MATURE
• PETER
• PHILEMON, LETTER TO
• PHILIPPIANS, LETTER TO THE
• PHILOSOPHY
• POLITICAL SYSTEMS
• POWER
• PRAYER
• PREACHING, KERYGMA
• PREACHING FROM PAUL TODAY
• PRE-EXISTENCE
• PRINCIPALITIES AND POWERS
• PRISON, PRISONER
• PROPHECY, PROPHESYING
• PROPHET, PAUL AS
• PSYCHOLOGY
• PURITY AND IMPURITY
• Q
• QUMRAN AND PAUL
• R
• REDEMPTION
• RELIGIONS, GRECO-ROMAN
• RESTORATION OF ISRAEL
• RESURRECTION
• REVOLUTIONARY MOVEMENTS
• REWARDS
• RHETORIC
• RHETORICAL CRITICISM
• RICHES AND POVERTY
• RIGHTEOUSNESS, RIGHTEOUSNESS OF GOD
• ROMANS, LETTER TO THE
• ROME AND ROMAN CHRISTIANITY
• S
• SACRIFICE, OFFERING
• SALVATION
• SATAN, DEVIL
• SAVIOR
• SERVANT, SERVICE
• SEXUALITY, SEXUAL ETHICS
• SIGNS, WONDERS, MIRACLES
• SIN, GUILT
• SLAVE, SLAVERY
• SOCIAL SETTING OF MISSION CHURCHES
• SOCIAL-SCIENTIFIC APPROACHES TO PAUL
• SON OF GOD
• SPIRITUALITY
• STRONG AND WEAK
• STUMBLING BLOCK
• SUFFERING
• T
• TEACHING/PARAENESIS
• TEMPLE
• TENTMAKING
• TEXTUAL CRITICISM
• THESSALONIANS, LETTERS TO THE
• TONGUES
• TRADITION
• TRAVEL IN THE ROMAN WORLD
• TRIUMPH
• TRUTH
• U
• UNIVERSALISM
• V
• VIRTUES AND VICES
• VISIONS, ECSTATIC EXPERIENCE
• W–Z
• WEAKNESS
• WISDOM
• WITNESS
• WORKS OF THE LAW
• WORLD, COSMOLOGY
• WORSHIP
• WRATH, DESTRUCTION
• Content links