Constructing the World: A Study in Paul’s Cosmological Language (SNTW)

by Edward Adams

Publisher:

T&T Clark

, 2000

Overview

Dr. Adams focuses, in this ground-breaking study, on Paul’s understanding and use of the cosmological concepts ‘world’ and ‘creation’. He confronts this study by using current disciplines, such as critical linguistics, to understand the differing perspectives on the world found in 1 Corinthians and Romans by examining Paul’s historical and social context.

Contents

Top Highlights

“but with the accent on God’s purpose for the redemption of all” (Page 188)

“In Romans, a somewhat different emphasis emerges. Paul casts God’s saving activity as that of the creator reclaiming his creation. The world has rebelled against its creator. But God has acted to restore the world to his sovereignty. On the sea-rescue analogy, salvation consists not so much in the rescue of human beings from a sinking ship, but in the recovery of the wayward vessel itself. The world itself is the object of God’s redemption. The Christian community is not redeemed from this sinful and perishing world / age, but is a proleptic expression of the redemption of God’s world.” (Page 190)

“What Paul is affirming here is that there is no one who is outside the scope of the salvific effects of Christ’s death.” (Page 188)

“The problem with Gentile society, on this assessment, is that it is out of harmony with the cosmic and natural order” (Pages 163–164)

“church-sect typology has probably come under the heaviest fire.” (Page 10)

Product Details

• Title: Constructing the World: A Study in Paul’s Cosmological Language
• Author: Edward Adams
• Series: Studies of the New Testament and its World (SNTW)
• Publisher: T & T Clark
• Publication Date: 2000
• Pages: 300

About Edward Adams

Edward Adams is Lecturer in New Testament, King’s College, University of London. He has taught widely in the field of New Testament and early Christianity and currently teaches undergraduate courses on Paul in Context, New Testament eschatology and Colossians in Greek. At MA level, he co-ordinates and is the principal teacher for the foundational course of the MA in Biblical Studies. He is the author of "Christianity at Corinth" and "The Stars will Fall from the Heaven".