Cosmology and self in the Apostle Paul
Subtitle: the material spirit
By: Troels Engberg-Pedersen
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Oxford; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 287
ISBN-13: 9780199558568
Description: This text presents an innovative challenge to the traditional reading of Paul. Troels Engberg-Pedersen argues that the usual mainly cognitive and metaphorical ways of understanding central Pauline concepts must be supplemented by a literal understanding that directly reflects Paul's materialist cosmology.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [208]-269) and indexes.
Table of contents: title: A stoic understanding of the pneuma and ressurection in 1 Corinthians 15; title: The bodily pneuma in Paul; title: Physics, cognition, and superhuman persons; title: Divine and human agency and freedom; title: From the self to the shared; title: Bodily practice.