Eros And The Christ Longing And Envy In Pauls Christology
Publisher: Fortress Press
Published: 2013
Language: eng
Number of pages: 181
ISBN-13: 9780800698232
Description: The self-emptying of Christ (kenosis) in Philippians 2 has long been the focus of attention by Christian theologians and interpreters of Paul's christology. David E. Fredrickson sheds dramatic new light on familiar texts by discussing the centuries-old language of love and longing in Greek and Roman epistolary literature, showing that a "physics" of desire was related to notions of power and dominance. Paul's kenotic Christology challenged not only received notions of the power of the gods but of the very nature of love itself as a component of human society.