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: 9781493438105, 9781540960788, 9781493438082, 9781493438099, 1540960781, 1493438085, 1493438093, 1493438107
• Resource ID: LLS:PLTMTMPRLTCHRST
• Resource Type: Monograph
• Metadata Last Updated: 2024-12-16T18:04:27Z

About L. Ann Jervis

L. Ann Jervis (ThD, Wycliffe College) is emerita professor of New Testament at Wycliffe College, University of Toronto, in Toronto, Canada. She is a member of the Centre for Ethics at Trinity College, University of Toronto, and a member of the Center of Theological Inquiry in Princeton, New Jersey. She has served on various editorial boards, including Journal of Biblical Literature and New Testament Studies. Jervis is author of The Heart of the Gospel, The Purpose of Romans, and a commentary on Galatians. She is also a priest in the Anglican Church of Canada.