Paul W. Gooch (University of Toronto)

Paul and Religion

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Produktbeschreibung

Paul and Religion demonstrates the continuing and contemporary relevance of the most important, and most controversial, figure of early Christianity. In a conversational style, Gooch explores Paul's experience of grace and his dismissal of distinctive markers of religious identity in favour of love as binding together a community.

Produktdetails

• Cambridge Studies in Religion, Philosophy, and Society
• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 216
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. März 2022
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 13mm
• Gewicht: 332g
• ISBN-13: 9781108701921
• ISBN-10: 1108701922
• Artikelnr.: 63116701

Autorenporträt

Paul W. Gooch is Professor Emeritus of Philosophy at the University of Toronto. He is the author of Partial Knowledge: Philosophical Studies in Paul (1987) and Reflections on Jesus and Socrates: Word and Silence (1997).

Inhaltsangabe

1. What does Paul have to do with religion?: Beginning the conversation; 2.
What kind of religious interlocutor is Paul?: Understandings and
misunderstandings; 3. What is the religious form of life for Paul?: Going
wrong and getting right; 4. What does the Pauline religious form of life
have to do with death?: Amazing grace; 5. What for Paul is the nature of
the religious form of community?: Body, family, love; 6. How, for Paul,
should life 'in Christ' be lived?: Love and do what you will; 7. What, for
Paul, are the marks of membership?: Bodies and hearts; 8. How, for Paul,
does a religious community relate to others?: Insiders and outsiders; 9.
Paul and religion: the conversation continues.