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  • 3 - Incarnational Ethics of Self-Sacrifice

  • Paul Moser, Loyola University, Chicago
  • Book:
    Paul's Gospel of Divine Self-Sacrifice
    Published online:
    08 September 2022
    Print publication:
    15 September 2022, pp 80-104

  • Summary

    This chapter contends that Paul has a coherent approach to ethics and the law of God if understood with an incarnational and a reconciliatory component for Christ and his disciples. It gives special attention to his idea of “the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus. The chapter relates Paul’s approach to ethics and the law of God to reparative self-sacrifice. It thus gives a primary role to a divine lawgiver, above the law itself, thereby enabling the kinds of changes in the law and in the covenants acknowledged by Paul. The chapter attributes a key role in Paul’s perspective on ethics and the law to the promise of the new covenant in Jeremiah and Ezekiel. The chapter contends that Paul aimed to uphold the law of God, not to nullify it, through faith in God, and that he acknowledged “the law of Christ” as exemplifying the law of God. He also recognized the law of God in terms of “the law of the Spirit of life” in Christ Jesus. Paul acknowledged his dying to (the works of) the law in order to “live to God” and to Christ, in a way that reciprocates divine self-sacrificial love.

Paul's Gospel of Divine Self-Sacrifice
  • Righteous Reconciliation in Reciprocity
  • Paul Moser
  • Published online:
    08 September 2022
    Print publication:
    15 September 2022
  • In this book, Paul Moser explains how self-sacrificial righteousness of a reparative kind is at the heart of Paul's gospel of God. He also shows how divine self-sacrifice authenticates that gospel via human reciprocity toward God in reconciliation. A basis for this reciprocity lies in a teaching of ancient Judaism that humans are to reciprocate toward God for the sake of an interpersonal relationship that is righteous and reconciled through voluntary self-sacrifice to God. Moser demonstrates that Paul's gospel calls for faith, including trust, in God as reciprocity in human self-sacrifice toward God. Although widely neglected by interpreters, this theme brings moral and evidential depth to Paul's good news of reparative redemption from God.  Moser's study thus  enables a new understanding of some of the controversial matters regarding Paul's message in a way that highlights the coherence and profundity of his message.