We are being transformed : deification in Paul's soteriology / M. David Litwa.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Litwa, M. David.

Series:

Beihefte zur Zeitschrift für die neutestamentliche Wissenschaft und die Kunde der älteren Kirche ; Beiheft 187.

Beihefte zur Zeitschrift für die neutestamentliche Wissenschaft und die Kunde der älteren Kirche, 0171-6441 ; Bd. 187

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Bible. Epistles of Paul--Theology.

Bible.

Salvation--Biblical teaching.

Salvation.

Deification (Christianity).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (344 p.)

Place of Publication:

Berlin ; Boston : De Gruyter, c2012.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Can Pauline soteriology be categorized as a form of deification? This book attempts to answer this question by keen attention to the Greco-Roman world. It provides the first full-scale history of research on the topic. It is also the first work to fully treat the basic historical questions relating to deification. Namely, what is deity in the Greco-Roman world? What are the types of deification in the Greco-Roman world? Are there Jewish antecedents to deification? Does Paul consider Christ to be a divine being? If so, according to what logic? How is Pauline deification possible in light of ancient Jewish "monotheism"? How is deification possible with a strong notion of creation? Although a rigorously historical study, no attempt is made to avoid theological issues in their historical context. Deification, it is argued, provides a new historical category of perception with which to deepen our knowledge of the Apostle's religious thought in its own time. This book is intended for an academic audience. The range of topics discussed here should interest a wide-array of scholars in the fields of Hebrew Bible, New Testament, Classics, and Patristics.

Contents:

What is a god?: defining divinity in the Greco-Roman world

Survey of deification: assimilation to specific deities

The roots of a Jewish vision of deification

Divine corporeality and the pneumatic body

Divine corporeality and deification

Deification and the cosmic rule of the saints

Paul and moral assimilation to God

Monotheism and divine multiplicity

Creation and the objection of absolute transcendence.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9786613627322

9781280597497

1280597496

9783110283419

3110283417

OCLC:

784886937