Thursday night: for those joining here is the Zoom link for the evening (19:30 UK time):
ID: 572 803 9267
Passcode: 5GkMTA
Prior to coming please either read (and probably make notes) from the ‘extended article’ on ‘All Israel will be saved’. It is found here: All Israel will be saved. If you prefer there is a shortish video that gives more of a summary:
I plan that we will have 90 minutes together (sufficient time to decipher everything Paul ever wrote or thought!!!???).
- I will begin with a summary of the key points in the article I wrote.
- This will be followed by questions for clarification.
- Then will be time for push back or ‘not satisfied with’ / alternative views responses etc. (Either formed in the main session or in breakout rooms if there are too many of us to handle it in the main session… if in groups then there will be feedback when we are all together.)
- And finally some open discussion on what would constitute a healthy response to ‘Israel’ of today.
I am aware this is a highly controversial / debated subject, so a quick reminder – do not come on board assuming I have now settled all discussions and am ‘right’… and neither come to the Zoom assuming that you are right!! we are not seeking to make a point but as the title to the series makes plain these are ‘explorations in theology and practice’. I do not anticipate that we will all be agreed at the end of the evening!
As I wrote in earlier posts the part that is ‘new’ follows the work of Jason Staples who has gone to great lengths to show that ‘Jew’ and ‘Israel’ are not synonymous terms (others have hinted at that – eg James Dunn – but it has not been developed as far as I know prior to Staples). An article by Staples that can be easily accessed is here.
To read the details of Staples’ approach the book ‘Paul and the Resurrection of Israel’ is set to become a classic.
I look forward to seeing you soon.