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The emergence of sin : the cosmic tyrant in Romans / Matthew Croasmun.
Van Pelt Library BS2655.S54 C66 2017
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LIBRA BS2655.S54 C66 2017
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Croasmun, Matthew, 1979- author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Bible. Romans, V-VIII--Socio-rhetorical criticism.
- Bible.
- Bible. Romans, V-VIII.
- Sin--Biblical teaching.
- Sin.
- Personification in the Bible.
- Socio-rhetorical criticism of sacred works.
- Physical Description:
- xi, 278 pages ; 25 cm
- Place of Publication:
- New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2017]
- Contents:
- 1 A/Sin: The Genealogy of a Person(ification) 3
- Sin Came Through Sinning: Bultmannian Reduction 4
- Standing Under Definite Lordship: Käsemannian Dualism 11
- Sinful Institutions: Liberationist Emergence? 15
- Conclusions 20
- 2 Emergence 22
- Emergent Properties 23
- Dualisms, Mental, and Vital 26
- Reduction 27
- Emergentism as a Trans-Ordinal Theory 29
- A Brief History of Emergence Theory 30
- The Generative Dialectic: Supervenience and Downward Causation 32
- The Problem of Downward Causation 36
- Downward Causation in Chemistry 40
- Downward Causation in Biology 41
- Downward Causation in Sociology 45
- Case Study: Racism 47
- Conclusions 52
- 3 The Emergence of Persons Great and Small 57
- An Emergent Ontology of Human Persons 60
- The Self Out of Bounds 66
- The Social Self: Super/organisms and Group Minds 72
- Organisms, Superorganisms, and Biological Relativity of Scale 72
- Group Minds 80
- Conclusions 94
- Sin as a Mythological Person: A Superorganism with a Group Mind 99
- 4 An Emergent Account of Sin in Romans 102
- The Emergence of the Cosmic Power, Sin 105
- The Body of Sin 111
- The Dominion of Sin 124
- Race, the Law, and the Dominion of Sin 127
- Law and the Dominion of Sin 128
- The Transmission of Sin 133
- Conclusions 137
- 5 Sin, Gender, and Empire 140
- Ancient Ideology of Self-Mastery 141
- Desire and the Passions vs. the Mind in Romans 147
- The Emergence of the Goddess Roma 149
- Roma's Gender Trouble 155
- Hamartia as Tribadic Roma 161
- The Body of Christ and the Obedience of Faith 167
- Conclusions 170.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780190277987
- 019027798X
- OCLC:
- 956984856
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