Practicing with Paul: Reflections on Paul and the Practices of Ministry in Honor of Susan G. Eastman
Overview
Collecting essays from prominent scholars who span the globe and academic disciplines, Practicing with Paul speaks into the life of the church in ways that inspire and edify followers and ministers of Jesus Christ. Each contribution delves into the details and historical contexts of Paul’s letters, including the interpretation of those texts throughout church history. Meanwhile, each author interprets those details in relation to Christian practice and suggests implications for contemporary Christian ministry that flow out of this rich interpretive process. By modeling forms of interpretation that are practically-oriented, this book provides inspiration for current and future Christian ministers as they too attempt to incarnate the ways of Christ along with Paul.
Key Features
- Focuses on the action of God in Christ and the way in which it transforms human life
- Explores the interaction between sin, suffering, love, and Paul’s radical gospel of grace
- Examines how Paul’s letters illuminate the practices involved in the ministries of the church
Contents
- Participation and Ministerial Integrity in the Letters of Paul
- Paul, Reciprocity, and Giving with the Poor
- The Disruptive Sermon: Preaching and Apocalyptic Imagination
- Gendered Bodies and the Body of Christ
- Liberating Paul: African Americans’ Use of Paul in Resistance and Protest
- Timely Pastoral Response to Suffering: God’s Time and the Power of the Resurrection
- Prayer in Paul’s Letters: Theology and Practice
- Painting Hope: Formational Hues of Paul’s Spiritual Warfare Language in 2 Corinthians 10–13
- Paul the Personalist: Why the Poor Matter to the Church
- In Christ Together: Intergenerational Ministry and 1 Corinthians 12
- Christlike Feasting: Attentiveness, Solidarity, and Self-Restraint in Romans
- The Pursuit of Peace and the Power of God
- Messianic Anarchy: The Liberating Word of Romans 13:1–7
- Paul the Peacemaker and the Ministry of Restorative Justice
- Toward an Evangelical Art of Dying
Contributors
- Richard B. Hays
- Michael J. Gorman
- John M. G. Barclay
- Charles Campbell
- Beverly Roberts Gaventa
- Lisa Bowens
- L. Ann Jervis
- Robert E. Moses
- Colin Miller
- Emily A. Peck-McClain
- Presian R. Burroughs
- Mary Schmitt
- Bishop Samuel Enosa Peni
- Douglas Harink
- Douglas A. Campbell
- Philip G. Ziegler
Praise for the Print Edition
As the title promises, the essays here draw, even compel, the reader into Pauline ‘practice,’ that is to say, into engagement with the Pauline gospel as it informs contemporary Christian ministries of transformation, justice, and peace-making. The essays span a distinguished, intergenerational company of authors whose work is informed and enriched by Susan Eastman’s extraordinary, generous, and generative gift for showing how careful Pauline exegesis speaks to the most urgent concerns of our times.
—Alexandra Brown, Washington and Lee University
Product Details
- Title: Practicing with Paul: Reflections on Paul and the Practices of Ministry in Honor of Susan G. Eastman
- Editor: Presian R. Burroughs
- Publisher: Wipf & Stock
- Publication Date: 2018
- Pages: 264
- Resource Type: Festschrift
- Topic: Pauline Studies
About Presian R. Burroughs
Presian R. Burroughs is Assistant Professor of New Testament at United Theological Seminary in Dayton, Ohio. In addition to Pauline scholarship, her research interests include ecological theology.