All citizens of Christ : : a cosmopolitan reading of unity and diversity in Paul's letters / / by Jeehei Park.

• Superior document: Biblical interpretation series ; Volume 201
• VerfasserIn: Park, Jeehei,
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden, The Netherlands ;, Boston : : Brill,, [2023]; ©2023
• Year of Publication: 2023
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Language: English
• Series: Biblical interpretation series ; Volume 201.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (184 pages)

This work is both a critical response to the abuse and misuse of Paul’s words on unity and a proposal to read them as a way to care about “others.”

Table of Contents

• Intro
• Contents
• Acknowledgements
• Abbreviations
• Chapter 1 Introduction
• 1 Beyond Universalism and Particularism
• 2 Why Cosmopolitanism?
• 3 Becoming a Citizen
• Chapter 2 Defining Κοσμοπολίτης
• 1 Life as a Voluntary Exile: Diogenes of Sinope's Cosmopolitanism
• 2 Nomos-abiding Citizens: Philo of Alexandria's Cosmopolitanism
• 3 Citizens of the Same Cosmos: Plutarch's Cosmopolitanism
• 4 Kin of God: Epictetus's Cosmopolitanism
• 5 Parts of the Whole: Marcus Aurelius's Cosmopolitanism
• 6 Conclusion
• Chapter 3 Citizens of Christ
• 1 Philippians 1:27-30: Living as Citizens of Christ
• 1.1 Πολιτεύομαι
• 1.2 A 'Gospel' Regime as a Cosmopolitan Community
• 1.3 Unity as a Cosmopolitan Action
• 2 Philippians 3:17-21: Heavenly Πολίτευμα
• 2.1 Πολίτευμα
• 2.2 The Cosmopolitan Body as the Ekklēsia
• 2.3 The Body of Citizenship in Heaven
• 3 Conclusion
• Chapter 4 Equal, Thus United
• 1 1 Corinthians 12:12-14: Many, Baptized into One Body
• 1.1 Many and One through Baptism
• 1.2 The Body of Christ as a Πολίτευμα
• 1.3 Care for the Whole Body
• 2 Galatians 3:26-29: One in Christ, Neither Jew Nor Greek
• 2.1 Cosmopolitan Unity in Christ
• 2.2 Kinship through Baptism
• 2.3 What to Invalidate?
• 3 Conclusion
• Chapter 5 Heterogeneous, Yet United
• 1 Romans 10:12-13: The Same Lord of All
• 1.1 Rom 9-11 and Paul's Euangelion
• 1.2 No Distinction in …?
• 1.3 United in the Same Lord
• 2 Romans 12:3-5, 9-13: One Body, Many Members
• 2.1 Paraenesis and Euangelion
• 2.2 One Body and Different Parts
• 2.3 Cosmopolitan Love
• 3 Conclusion
• Chapter 6 Conclusion
• 1 Cosmopolitan Ecclesiology
• 2 Continuing Cosmopolitan Unity
• 3 Cosmopolitanism and Beyond
• Bibliography
• Ancient Sources
• Modern Sources
• Index of Ancient Sources
• Index of Modern Authors.