Talk:Paul the Apostle/Archive 5

message: WikiMasterCreator claims the Acts of the Apostles are a valid source for the life of Paul. Roger Arguile claims it is not. What is the solution to this edit conflict? 75.14.219.155 20:55, 4 July 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Question has the quote from the 1910 edition been revised, or has it been removed from the 1967 edition?--Riferimento 01:00, 5 July 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: I checked out the New Catholic Encyclopedia myself, it's found in most libraries. The entire article on Judaizers is not present. In general, the NCE is an abridgement of the original Catholic Encyclopedia, with more pictures than text and less technical discussion and more general overview type discussion, in keeping with the times. 75.14.212.224 05:47, 6 July 2007 (UTC)

text: is the only source for the final trip by Paul to Jerusalem, his arrest there, and trip to Rome. The Pauline Epistles don't even mention it. 75.14.219.155 21:17, 4 July 2007 (UTC)
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message: For your review and consideration, I submit this entry taken from the 1995 edition of the Harper Collins Encyclopedia of Catholicism.
St. Paul: Theology
"Although Paul was controversial both during his lifetime and subsequently many of his basic convictions were traditional, rooted in Judaism and early Christianity. Two of his basic convictions were belief in Jewish monotheism and belief in the revelation of God in the Jewish Scriptures. Hence Paul always thought of himself as a Jew, both ethnically and religiously. From Christian tradition and his own experience on the road to Damascus came his conviction about the centrality of Christ, especially of his death and resurrection. Also characteristic of Paul is his conviction, rooted in his experience of the risen Jesus, about the relationship between Jews and Gentiles and the status of Mosaic law. For Paul there was "in Christ" no longer any distinction between Jews and Gentiles (Gal 3:28; Rom 3:22); all are saved through faith in Christ rather than through the observance of Mosaic law (Rom 3:21-30). Through faith in Christ is no longer any need for either Jewish or gentile Christians to observe Mosaic law as such. Although there is some dispute, Paul seems to have included in this both the ritual and the ethical sections of the law. Christian conduct was now to be guided by the presence of the Spirit by faith working through love, and by Christians becoming servants of one another (Gal 5-6). Paul also had a belief, based on but expanded from early Christian eschatology, that in the consummation of the world all things would be subjected to Christ and to God. For Paul this included the Jewish people (Rom 9-11). Although the precise manor of this inclusion remains uncertain, it is clear that Paul could not imagine a consummation of the world in which the Jewish people were not included. Paul's reputation in the second and third centuries remained controversial, especially for Jewish Christians. Interpretations of Paul's Letters were central to the thought of Augustine, Aquinas, Luther, and Calvin."
Perhaps portions may be deemed acceptable for inclusion. WikiMasterCreator 02:55, 5 July 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Does it have the Imprimatur? 75.0.2.134 03:23, 5 July 2007 (UTC)

text: "75.0.2.134" RE: HC Encyclopedia of CatholicismI don't see an Imprimatur in the book, does that make it unusable? WikiMasterCreator 07:03, 5 July 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Catholic Encyclopedia Dispute