Paul and Time: Life in the Temporality of Christ

by L. Ann Jervis

Publisher:

Baker Academic

, 2023

Overview

How did Paul understand time?

Standard interpretations are that Paul modified his Jewish apocalyptic sequential two age temporality in light of Christ’s resurrection, resulting in a concept of the overlap of the ages. Ann Jervis instead proposes that Paul understood Christ’s resurrection and its effect on believers’ temporality as allowing them to live the time of the risen and exalted Christ. Believers live entirely in Christ, liberated from the present age. Christ’s temporality is time that is tensed, though the tenses are nonsequential. Christ’s past is in Christ’s present, as is Christ’s future. The lives of those joined to Christ, while in chronological time, are enveloped and structured by Christ’s temporality.

Jervis’s interpretation has significant impact on our reading of Paul’s understanding of believers’ suffering, sin, and physical death, and of the eschaton. Scholars and students will profit from this lively contribution to Pauline studies. Foreword by John Barclay.

Key Features

• Provides a new entryway into the New Testament witness to the person and work of Jesus Christ
• Proposes that Paul did not think in terms of two ages but rather of life in this age or life in Christ
• Engages both philosophical and traditional biblical understandings of time

Product Details

• Title: Paul and Time: Life in the Temporality of Christ
• Author: L. Ann Jervis
• Publisher: Baker Academic
• Print Publication Date: 2023
• Logos Release Date: 2023
• Pages: 190
• Era: era:contemporary
• Language: English
• Resources: 1
• Format: Digital › Logos Reader Edition
• Subjects: Bible. N.T. Epistles of Paul › Criticism, interpretation, etc; God (Christianity) › Eternity; Time › Religious aspects--Christianity; Death › Religious aspects--Christianity; Paul, the Apostle, Saint
• ISBNs: 9781540960788, 9781493438082, 9781493438099, 1540960781, 1493438085, 1493438093
• Resource ID: LLS:PLTMTMPRLTCHRST
• Resource Type: Monograph
• Metadata Last Updated: 2023-11-21T18:27:28Z

About L. Ann Jervis

Ann Jervis has been teaching New Testament studies at Wycliffe since 1990. She has a cross appointment as Professor of NT at Wycliffe and Trinity College. Academic interests revolve around Paul and Paul’s world. She has published three books on Paul and several scholarly articles. She is currently writing a book for Eerdmans on Paul’s view of suffering and her next project is a book with Hendrickson on Paul’s ethics. She has also written and taught in the area of women in the early church. She has been an invited speaker at institutions and conferences in Europe, the United States and the Caribbean. She is a member of the Center of Theological Inquiry of Princeton and is involved in the Princeton Pastor-Theologian program, the purpose of which is to enable church leaders to think deeply about the Christian faith. Ann is an ordained priest in the Diocese of Toronto and an honorary assistant at Church of the Redeemer, Toronto. Phone: [phone]