Timothy Ashworth

Paul's Necessary Sin (eBook, ePUB)

The Experience of Liberation

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

How can we know today what was happening in the minds and hearts of Paul and the first Christians so long ago? By getting below the surface of Paul's theology, the consistent key elements of early Christian experience are revealed in a way that throws light on the meaning of powerful religious experiences and movements both in the past and today. Illuminating for those who have never read a word on Paul yet disturbing and provocative for biblical scholars, this book tackles the topic of the religious experience of Paul and the first Christians. Lacking authentic knowledge of Paul's liberating experience, generations of translators and interpreters have inevitably and sometimes clumsily obscured Paul's meaning. In this book the scholarly accusation that Paul is incoherent is turned upside down to show how uncritically accepted ways of translating Paul mislead today's reader and introduce a mystifying complexity into scholarship on Paul. Taking the reader step-by-step through a painstaking restoration of the meaning of Paul's text, the colour and form of Paul's original vision are revealed.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis eBooks
• Seitenzahl: 272
• Erscheinungstermin: 5. Dezember 2016
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781351912495
• Artikelnr.: 49365272

Autorenporträt

Timothy Ashworth is Lecturer in Biblical Studies at Woodbrooke Quaker Study Centre, Birmingham, UK.

Inhaltsangabe

Contents: Bibliographical information
Introduction. Part One Liberation: A new revelation
Faith's new way of listening
The freedom of obedience
Childhood under law. Part Two The Exposure of Sin: Childhood and sin
Sin and flesh. Part Three From Childhood to Adulthood: Infants in Christ
Coming of age
The inheritance. Part Four The Source of Freedom: God's outcast: the transformation of Jesus
God's fools: the transformation of a few
Seeing is becoming: the transformation of all. Conclusion
Indexes.