Cosmology and self in the Apostle Paul: the material spirit
Contents: A stoic understanding of the pneuma and ressurection in 1 Corinthians 15 -- The bodily pneuma in Paul -- Physics, cognition, and superhuman persons -- Divine and human agency and freedom -- From the self to the shared -- Bodily practice. -- Summary: This text presents an innovative challen...
| Zusammenfassung: | Contents: A stoic understanding of the pneuma and ressurection in 1 Corinthians 15 -- The bodily pneuma in Paul -- Physics, cognition, and superhuman persons -- Divine and human agency and freedom -- From the self to the shared -- Bodily practice. -- Summary: 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 |
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| Beschreibung: | Formerly CIP Uk. - Includes bibliographical references and index |
| ISBN: | 0199596743 |