New views on Paul and his limits. Several psychological thoughts

The article summarises the interpretation of Paul in the "New Perspective on Paul" in five theses and offers a series of counter-theses based on arguments belonging to the historical psychology of religion. In spite of the fact that the traditional interpretation of Paul in the Lutheran tradition and its renewal in the Bultmann school by existential hermeneutics emphatically refused a psychological approach. The results of these psychological considerations are in line with Luther and Bultmann. They are a revised protestant interpretation of Pauline theology, but they take into account the social dimension of the Pauline theology that was discovered in the "New Perspective on Paul".