We Are Being Transformed : : Deification in Paul's Soteriology /

We Are Being Transformed : : Deification in Paul's Soteriology / / M. David Litwa.

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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...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DGBA Backlist Complete English Language 2000-2014 PART1
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Litwa, M. David,
Place / Publishing House:Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter, , [2012]
©2012
Year of Publication:2012
Language:English
Series:Beihefte zur Zeitschrift für die neutestamentliche Wissenschaft , 187
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Physical Description:1 online resource (327 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Preface
  • Contents
  • Abbreviations
  • Introduction: The Logic and History of Deification in Pauline Research
  • Part I: The Context of Deification in Paul
  • Chapter 1: What is a God? Defining Divinity in the Greco-Roman World
  • Chapter 2: Survey of Deification: Assimilation to Specific Deities
  • Chapter 3: The Jewish Roots of Deification
  • Part II Sharing the Divine Identity
  • Chapter 4: Divine Corporeality and the Pneumatic Body
  • Chapter 5: Divine Corporeality and Deification
  • Chapter 6: Deification and the Cosmic Rule of the Saints
  • Chapter 7: Paul and Moral Assimilation to God
  • Part III: Addressing the Challenges: Monotheism and Divine Transcendence
  • Chapter 8: Monotheism and Divine Multiplicity
  • Chapter 9: Creation and the Objection of Absolute Transcendence
  • Conclusion
  • Limitations and Clarifications
  • Results
  • Bibliography
  • Primary Sources
  • Secondary Sources
  • Subject Index

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