Self-Deception and Wholeness in Paul and Matthew

Via uses the concept of self-deception as a vantage point for understanding something about Paul and Matthew. Employing an existential method in the broad sense Via asks about the nature of a pervasive phenomenon of human existence with some attention given to psychological aspects. Nevertheless this study is primarily exegetical and interpretive -- aimed at theological understanding -- rather than intensively methodological. Positing that self-deception is a deformation Via undertakes to pay at...See More