We are being transformed
Subtitle: deification in Paul's soteriology
By: M. David Litwa
Series: Beihefte zur Zeitschrift für die neutestamentliche Wissenschaft und die Kunde der älteren Kirche -- Bd. 187
Publisher: De Gruyter; Walter de Gruyter Inc.; de Gruyter
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Berlin; Boston
Language: eng
Number of pages: 327
ISBN-13: 9783110283310
Subjects: Bible; Deification (Christianity); Salvation; Biblical teaching; Theology
Description: Can Pauline soteriology be categorized as a form of deification? This book attempts to answer this question by keen attention to the Greco-Roman world. Deification, it is argued, provides a new historical category of perception by which to deepen our knowledge of the Apostle's soteriological thought in its own time. The range of topics discussed here should interest a wide array of scholars in the fields of Hebrew Bible, New Testament, Classics, and Patristics.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: What is a god?: defining divinity in the Greco-Roman world; title: Survey of deification: assimilation to specific deities; title: The roots of a Jewish vision of deification; title: Divine corporeality and the pneumatic body; title: Divine corporeality and deification; title: Deification and the cosmic rule of the saints; title: Paul and moral assimilation to God; title: Monotheism and divine multiplicity; title: Creation and the objection of absolute transcendence.