Oneself in Another: Participation and Personhood in Pauline Theology (Cascade Library of Pauline Studies)
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Overview
Oneself in Another explores the Pauline themes of redemption and transformation through Christ’s participation in human history and life. The essays range from careful exegetical and historical analysis to interdisciplinary engagements with issues in theology, global events, and medical ethics. Throughout, they focus on human experience, questions about how people change, and God’s gracious initiative liberating human agency.
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- Explores the Pauline themes of redemption and transformation
- Ranges from careful exegetical and historical analysis to interdisciplinary engagements
- Challenges readers to see Paul and themselves with new eyes
- Apocalypse and Incarnation:The Participatory Logic of Paul’s Gospel
- Incarnation as Mimetic Participation in Philippians 2:6–11
- Strengthening the Ego for Service: The Pastoral Purpose of Romans 7:7–25
- Oneself in Another: Participation and the Spirit in Romans 8
- Love’s Folly: Love and Knowledge in 1 Corinthians
- Unveiling Death in 2 Corinthians: Revelation, Mystery, and Death
- The Custody of Hope: The Resurrection of the Dead and Christian Existence
- The Empire of Illusion: Sin, Evil, and Good News in Romans
- Imitating Christ Imitating Us: Paul’s Educational Project in Philippians
- Bodies, Agency, and the Relational Self: A Pauline Approach to Psychiatric Drugs
- Autism, Communication, and Connection in Light of Paul’s Anthropology
- Christian Experience and Paul’s Logic of Solidarity: The Spiral Structure of Romans 5–8
Part I: Exegetical and Theological Investigations
Part II: Pauline Theology in Theory and Practice
These superb essays form a rich, interconnected exploration of the relational and participatory dynamics of Paul’s theology. Working at the cutting edge of scholarship, and with multiple connections to the anxieties of our age, Susan Eastman’s insights are persuasive and profound. This book is a treat, and I shall return to it often.
—John M. G. Barclay, professor of divinity, Durham University
Susan Eastman is that rare commentator whose readings of Paul are both provocative and persuasive, rigorous and humane, and as relevant to the present day as they are historically grounded and theologically subtle. Developing further some of the themes of her groundbreaking Paul and the Person and drawing on theoretical approaches from developmental psychology to theater studies, these penetrating and compassionate essays challenge us to see Paul and ourselves with new eyes.
—Teresa Morgan, professor in New Testament and early Christianity, Yale Divinity School
This collection of Susan Eastman’s recent work is to be treasured. No one has thought as deeply and as carefully as has Eastman about the manifold consequences of Paul’s apocalyptic gospel for theological anthropology and so also for our contemporary self-understanding. These fine essays—at once exegetical, theological, and pastoral in force— open up invaluable new perspectives upon how we may faithfully inhabit our beleaguered humanity today.
—Philip G. Ziegler, chair in Christian dogmatics, University of Aberdeen
- Title: Oneself in Another: Participation and Personhood in Pauline Theology (Cascade Library of Pauline Studies)
- Author: Susan Grove Eastman
- Series: Cascade Library of Pauline Studies
- Publisher: Wipf and Stock
- Print Publication Date: 2023
- Pages: 314
- Language: English
- Resources: 1
- Format: Digital › Logos Reader Edition
- ISBNs: 9781532692628, 1532692625, 9781532692635, 1532692633, 1532692641, 9781532692642
- Resource ID: LLS:NSLFNTHRPRPLNST
- Resource Type: Monograph
- Metadata Last Updated: 2024-09-21T17:16:21Z
Susan Grove Eastman (Ph.D.) is associate research professor of New Testament at Duke Divinity School, and an Episcopal priest. She is the author of Paul and the Person: Reframing Paul’s Anthropology (2017).