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Autore |
Litwa M. David |
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Titolo |
We are being transformed [[electronic resource] ] : deification in Paul's soteriology / / M. David Litwa |
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Berlin ; ; Boston, : De Gruyter, c2012 |
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ISBN |
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1-280-59749-6 |
9786613627322 |
3-11-028341-7 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (344 p.) |
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Collana |
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Beihefte zur Zeitschrift für die neutestamentliche Wissenschaft und die Kunde der älteren Kirche, , 0171-6441 ; ; Bd. 187 |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Salvation - Biblical teaching |
Deification (Christianity) |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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What is a god?: defining divinity in the Greco-Roman world -- Survey of deification: assimilation to specific deities -- The roots of a Jewish vision of deification -- Divine corporeality and the pneumatic body -- Divine corporeality and deification -- Deification and the cosmic rule of the saints -- Paul and moral assimilation to God -- Monotheism and divine multiplicity -- Creation and the objection of absolute transcendence. |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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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. It provides the first full-scale history of research on the topic. It is also the first work to fully treat the basic historical questions relating to deification. Namely, what is deity in the Greco-Roman world? What are the types of deification in the Greco-Roman world? Are there Jewish antecedents to deification? Does Paul consider Christ to be a divine being? If so, according to what logic? How is Pauline deification possible in light of ancient Jewish "monotheism"? How is deification possible with a strong notion of creation? Although a rigorously historical study, no attempt is made to avoid theological issues in their historical context. Deification, it is argued, provides a new historical category of perception with which to deepen our knowledge of the |
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