Translation of Die Mystik des Apostels Paulus.

Includes bibliographical references.

I. The Distinctive Character of Pauline Mysticism -- Primitive and developed mysticism -- Utterances of Pauline mysticism -- Christ-mysticism or God-mysticism -- The Stoic mysticism of the speech on the Areopagus -- Stoic and Pauline mysticism -- The Angel-Powers as a hindrance to God-mysticism -- Resurrection-mysticism and rebirth-mysticism -- Realism in Paul's mysticism -- Sacramentalism in Paul's mysticism -- Mythical and historico-cosmic mysticism -- Paul not wholly a mystic -- II. Hellenistic or Judaic -- The Hellenistic explanation: Reitzenstein -- The Hellenistic explanation: Bousset -- The Jewish-Hellenistic explanation: Deissmann -- The possibility of eschatological explanation -- III. The Pauline Epistles -- Questions of authenticity -- Aim and contents of the Letters -- Dating of the Letters -- Original and transmitted state of the Letters -- Lost Letters -- IV. The Eschatological Doctrine of Redemption -- The eschatological Expectation in the Letters of Paul -- The eschatological doctrine of redemption according to Jesus -- The eschatological conditions governing the concept of the atoning Death -- The primitive-Christian concept of it -- The Death of Jesus and the eschatological doctrine of redemption in Paul -- The Return of Jesus and the events of the End -- Law and Angel-dominion -- The Gnostic turn given to the eschatological doctrine of Redemption: Gnosis and mysticism -- V. The Problems of the Pauline Eschatology -- Messianic eschatology and 'Son of Man' eschatology -- The revival of Messianic eschatology in the Psalms of Solomon -- The eschatology of Jesus: presence of the resurrected righteous in the Kingdom of God -- The 'Son of Man' and the Messiah identified by Jesus -- Eschatology of the Apocalypses of Baruch and of Ezra -- resurrection to the Messianic Kingdom in Paul -- The deniers of the resurrection in Corinth -- Paul's doctrine of two resurrections -- The nature of resurrection to the Messianic Kingdom explained from mysticism -- The resurrection of Jesus as the beginning of the Messianic period -- The objective mysticism of facts in the natural and supernatural worlds conceived as co-existent

VI. The Mystical Doctrine of the Dying and Rising again with Christ -- The concepts of the community of Saints as the germ of Christ-mysticism -- Christ-mysticism in the preaching of Jesus and in the teaching of Paul -- This mysticism as eschatological redemption looked at from within -- Solution of the problem of the relation of Paul to Jesus -- The community of the Saints and the mystical body of Christ -- Being dead and risen with Christ -- Being-in-Christ -- Converse relationships in the mystical body -- Annulment of relationship by immorality -- Paul's conception of dying and rising again -- Departing and being with Christ -- The superiority of the eschatological to the Hellenistic explanation -- VII. Suffering as a Mode of Manifestation of the Dying with Christ -- Fellowship with Christ in suffering and dying -- Suffering with Christ a primitive-Christian concept -- Paul's suffering: the data in Acts -- Paul's suffering: the data in the Letters -- Scourgings -- Illnesses and ecstatic experiences -- Persecutions by the Jews: hostility of Jewish Christians -- Paul's suffering: hostility from his own communities -- Paul's suffering: "when I am weak, then am I strong" -- VIII. Possession of the Spirit as a Mode of Manifestation of the Being-Risen-With-Christ -- The doctrine of the coming Spirit in the prophets -- The outpouring of the Spirit and "He that shall come' in John the Baptist and in Jesus -- The Spirit to Paul is the Spirit of Christ and the resurrection Spirit -- Being "in the Spirit" -- The effects of the Spirit -- The recognition of the Spirit -- Proving of Spirits: I John iv., Didache, Shepherd of Hermas -- IX. Mysticism and the Law -- Universalism and particularism in the prophets -- The universalism in belief and particularism in practice of Jesus -- The primitive-Christian and the Pauline preaching to the Gentiles -- The importance for Israel of the preaching to the Gentiles -- Freedom from the Law derived from the being-in-Christ -- The peculiarity of the Pauline doctrine of freedom from the Law -- Incompatibility of the Law and eschatology -- The theory of the status quo -- Difficulties of Paul's theories in practice -- The struggle over the Law -- X. Mysticism and Righteousness by Faith -- Righteousness by faith instead of "righteousness in Christ" -- Righteousness by faith in Galatians -- Righteousness by faith in Romans: Law and sin -- Law and sin in the Apocalypses of Baruch and Ezra -- Righteousness by faith in Romans: the grace of God -- Righteousness by faith in Romans: The atoning death of Jesus -- Righteousness by faith only a fragment of a doctrine of redemption -- XI. Mysticism and the Sacraments -- The eschatological origin of the primitive-Christian sacraments -- The baptism of John as an eschatological sacrament -- The taking over of John's baptism by the earliest community -- Baptism and the sacred Meal in the teaching of Jesus -- 'Daily bread' and the Messianic Meal -- The Last Supper -- "I go before you into Galilee" and "drinking the Wine new" -- The Last Supper of Jesus and the Lord's Meal of the primitive Church -- The nature of the primitive Lord's Meal -- Sacraments of the wanderings of the Israelites and Messianic Sacraments -- Baptism according to Paul -- Paul's references to the Lord's Meal -- Paul's knowledge of the Last Supper -- Table-fellowship with Christ in Paul -- The Lord's Meal and communion with the body of Christ -- Communion with Christ in the Lord's Meal in Hellenistic theology -- The Pauline and the Hellenistic view of Baptism and Eucharist -- Paul's sacraments only concern the Messianic blessedness -- Paul's sacraments as guarantees of resurrection -- Baptism for the dead -- Sacraments and resurrection in the Hellenistic theology -- The sacraments in the uneschatological concept of redemption

XII. Mysticism and Ethics -- Ethics comprised in repentance leading to the Kingdom of God in John the Baptist, Jesus, and primitive Christianity -- Ethics in Paul as the result of being-in-Christ and possessing the Spirit -- Ethical and super-ethical mysticism -- Ethics and freedom -- The nature of Paul's ethics -- Love as fulfilling the Law -- Love as the highest expression of the Spirit -- The Pauline and the non-Christian ethics about Love -- The ethics of Paul and of Jesus -- Judgment and reward in Paul's ethics -- Inward, not outward, freedom from the world -- Ethical valuation of earthly government -- Paul in the light of his own ethics: independence through work -- Service -- Conciliatoriness -- Self-consciousness -- Paul in the light of the Letter to Philemon -- The depth of Paul's ethics -- XIII. The Hellenization of Paul's Mysticism by Ignatius and The Johannine Theology -- The mysticism of union with Christ as a faith in Christ that can be Hellenized -- Hellenization of belief in Jesus -- Ignatius: his Hellenistic view of redemption -- Ignatius: union of flesh and spirit in Jesus and in the Church -- Ignatius: mysticism and Logos-doctrine -- Hellenization of the concept of redemption in Justin -- Hellenization of the mysticism of being-in-Christ in the Gospel of John -- Belief in the Logos-Christ as belief in the coming sacraments -- Baptism in the Gospel of John -- The Gospel of John: foot-washing and Baptism -- The Gospel of John: inauguration of Christian Baptism -- The Gospel of John: Bread of Life and Eucharist -- The Gospel of John: the works of the glorified Christ -- From the Pauline to the Johannine mysticism, a summary Appreciation of the value of the Pauline and Hellenized mysticism for religion -- XIV. The Permanent Elements in Paul's Mysticism -- Paul as the Patron Saint of Christian Thought -- The sense of Christ-mysticism -- The unity of belief in the Kingdom of God and in redemption -- Dying and rising again with Christ as a spiritual experience -- The ethics of the Kingdom of God in Paul's mysticism -- The Gospel of Jesus and the Gospel of Paul.