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TitleRethinking Galatians : Paul's vision of oneness in the living Christ / Peter S. Oakes and Andrew K. Boakye [electronic resource]
AuthorOakes, Peter S. / Boakye, Andrew K.
Call NoDTL 227.406 OAK
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International Standard Book Number 9780567661883
Dewey Decimal Classification Number DTL 227.406 OAK
Personal Name Oakes, Peter S.
Title Statement Rethinking Galatians : Paul's vision of oneness in the living Christ / Peter S. Oakes and Andrew K. Boakye [electronic resource]
Imprint T&T Clark, London, UK : 2020.
Physical Description eBook
General Note Includes Index and Bibliographical References
Summary, Etc. "Oakes and Boakye rethink Galatians by examining the text as a vision for the lives of its hearers. They show how, in tackling the difficulties that he faces in Galatia, Paul offers a vision of what the Galatians are in their relationship with the living Christ. This offers a new understanding of the concept of unity in diversity expressed in Gal 3:28. The authors develop their views over six chapters. First, Oakes maps a route from the letter to a focus on its Galatian hearers and on Paul's vision for their identity and existence. In the next chapter, Oakes uses the Christology of Galatians as a way to support the idea of pistis as current relationship with the living Christ. Boakye then offers three chapters analysing the letter's scriptural quotations and ideas about salvation and law. Boakye sees a key dynamic at work in Galatians as being a movement from death to life, as prophesied metaphorically by Ezekiel and as made literal for Paul in his encounter with the resurrected Christ, trust in whom becomes the route to life. Life becomes a key category for evaluating law. Boakye also draws Galatians close to Romans 4 in seeing in both texts the promise of the birth of Isaac, with Paul closely tying that to the resurrection of Jesus. Oakes then argues that the letter has a thematic concern for unity in diversity. In the first instance this is between Jews and gentiles but, in principle, it is between any other socially significant pair of groups"
Subject Added Entry - Topical Term BIBLE.N.T. - GALATIANS - CRITICISM, INTERPRETATION, ETC.
Added Entry, Personal Name Boakye, Andrew K.
Electronic Location and Access http://thedtl.on.worldcat.org/oclc/1238134236 DTL ePlatform Full text - Book opens through link in DTL DTL