ABSTRACT
The lexicography brings back to the profound point that A. Nygren and others underline for St. Paul's theology. Nygren's exposition of Paul's theology reveals the reverse: it is creative, innovative, transforming and indifferent to "returns" in the sense of lacking the very "interests" on which the analyses of Ludwig Feuerbach, Karl Marx, Friedrich Nietzsche and Sigmund Freud depend. Paul is concerned to disengage "love" in his own theology, Nygren and J. Moffatt argue, from Greek and other pagan ideas of love as primarily emotional, sexual, or ecstatic. Love, Paul says, has discovered integrity: as Nygren constantly declares, because it is disinterested and creative of value, it delights in truth. W. Harris concludes that whether or not the Corinthians replaced "the acoustic amplifying system", Paul's readers would know of resonating acoustic bronze jars used to project the voices of actors on stage and music.
