THE ORIGIN OF
PAUL'S RELIGION
THE JAMES SPRUNT LECTURES
DELIVERED AT UNION THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY
IN VIRGINIA
BY
J. GRESHAM MACHEN, D.D.
_Assistant Professor of New Testament Literature and
Exegesis in Princeton Theological Seminary_
New York
THE MACMILLAN COMPANY
1921
_All rights reserved_
PRINTED IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
Copyright, 1921,
BY THE MACMILLAN COMPANY.
Set up and printed. Published October, 1921.
Press of
J. J. Little & Ives Company
New York, U. S. A.
TO
WILLIAM PARK ARMSTRONG
MY GUIDE
IN THE STUDY OF THE NEW TESTAMENT
AND IN ALL GOOD THINGS
THE JAMES SPRUNT LECTURES
In 1911 Mr. James Sprunt of Wilmington, North Carolina, gave to
The Trustees of Union Theological Seminary in Virginia the sum
of thirty thousand dollars, since increased by his generosity to
fifty thousand dollars, for the purpose of establishing a perpetual
lectureship, which would enable the institution to secure from time
to time the services of distinguished ministers and authoritative
scholars, outside the regular Faculty, as special lecturers on
subjects connected with various departments of Christian thought
and Christian work. The lecturers are chosen by the Faculty of the
Seminary and a committee of the Board of Trustees, and the lectures
are published after their delivery in accordance with a contract
between the lecturer and these representatives of the institution.
The ninth series of lectures on this foundation is presented in this
volume.
W. W. MOORE, _President_.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
CHAPTER PAGE
I. INTRODUCTION 3
II. THE EARLY YEARS 43
III. THE TRIUMPH OF GENTILE FREEDOM 71
IV. PAUL AND JESUS 117
V. THE JEWISH ENVIRONMENT 173
VI. THE RELIGION OF THE HELLENISTIC AGE 211
VII. REDEMPTION IN PAGAN RELIGION AND IN PAUL 255
VIII. THE LORDSHIP OF JESUS 293
INDEX 319
CHAPTER I
INTRODUCTION
THE ORIGIN OF PAUL'S RELIGION