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Eros and the Christ : longing and envy in Paul's Christology / David E. Frederickson

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Paul in critical contextsDescription: xvii, 181 p. ; 24 cmISBN:
  • 9780800698232
  • 0800698231
Subject(s): LOC classification:
  • BT205 .F74 2013
Contents:
Troubling presence -- Apostolic sweetness -- Kenosis, or as the snow melts -- Abduction disregarded -- Not eaters of the people -- The politics of a manbride
Summary: 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
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Troubling presence -- Apostolic sweetness -- Kenosis, or as the snow melts -- Abduction disregarded -- Not eaters of the people -- The politics of a manbride

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

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