Emil Bock

Saint Paul: Life, Epistles, Teaching. Floris, 1993. Emil Bock.
Damascus: halfway point between initiation and conversion.
p. 33: The consciousness of modern man is turning unchristian, if not anti-christian, and therefore Xity must begin to influence the continuous development of consciousness itself.
Background of Stoicism: Athenodorus introduced the concept of conscience into ethics--- this term did not occur in the Old Testament.
p. 68: aversion to hierarchies in Old Testament extends all the way into intellectual protestantism
p, 76: 'spiritual optical illusion' of the Pharisee eschatology - telescoping the Second Coming with the Last Judgement
p. 77: "Time is nothing formal; it is humankind's grace-filled gift of reprieve preceding the ultimate decisions... the merciless spell of the O.T. concept of God and... and the Pharisees' idea of the Messiah had come about because... the continuous fear of the eschatological short circuit was effective and time was not really taken into account."
p. 81: Paul heard the light
p. 88: Revelation on Sinai was an Arabism within Israel's spiritual history--
p. 91: Damascus not only refuted eschatology of Messianic Final Judge but also the fundamental thesis of post-Mosaic Judaism that Nature no longer revealed divinity and that all pagan elements were impure and evil.
p. 107: Paul vitally incorporated the conscience--synesis, syneidesis
p. 173: ekstasis replaced by incorporation: "With this new beginning, the seed existed for a form of consciousness that does not arrive at its insights outwardly, but comes to them from within. The intellectual brain-bound thinking, which was still to have a dramatically rich history reaching from Neoplatonic and Alexandrian philosophy all the way to the mode of thinking of modern natural science, was and is a cognition leading from without to within. Today it is an appendage to sense perception directed solely to the external world. It came into being as the shrunken product of ancient half-clairvoyant perception..."
p. 241: Paulinism: a Christian anthropology concerning "the change in structure that [occurs] in the human being through the relationship with Christ."

p. 269: recht/richtig/realness/ no semblance---
--------"The redeeming effect of Christ is to rectify... [it is the] 'correction' of earth-creation which has fallen victim to semblance."

p. 274: active receptivity: basis of any genuine inner activity
See: Friedrich Christoph Oetinger, "Theology based on the idea of life," Theologia ex idea vitae.