http://www.thesandb.com/news/alumnus-explores-st-paul-and-nationalism.html Grinnell College Newspaper Wed, 15 May 2013 01:48:45 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.1 http://www.thesandb.com/news/alumnus-explores-st-paul-and-nationalism.html/comment-page-1#comment-81007 Paul Tue, 11 Sep 2012 03:05:16 +0000 http://www.thesandb.com/?p=10508#comment-81007 Like Jesus, Paul was interested in moving beyond nationalism. Paul was deeply Jewish, yet moved Judaism in a new direction, as did Jesus. This new direction was much more pluralistic in the sense that Paul looked beyond Judaism as an ethnic designation. Faith became the issue that transcended ethnicity. In regard to religious systems still being at work in our thinking, that will likely always be true. A good question is why? Where does this religious impulse come from and what perpetuates it? Like Jesus, Paul was interested in moving beyond nationalism. Paul was deeply Jewish, yet moved Judaism in a new direction, as did Jesus. This new direction was much more pluralistic in the sense that Paul looked beyond Judaism as an ethnic designation. Faith became the issue that transcended ethnicity. In regard to religious systems still being at work in our thinking, that will likely always be true. A good question is why? Where does this religious impulse come from and what perpetuates it?

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