The Theology of the Letter to the Galatians

Erscheinungsjahr 2025
ISBN: 978-1-108-83696-8
Verlag: Cambridge University Press

Buch, Englisch, 250 Seiten

Reihe: New New Testament Theology

In his letter to the Galatians, Paul sets out an astute vision of what God has done in Christ against the backdrop of a world out-of-joint, a world engulfed in identity-distorting domination systems. Theologically profound and prophetically challenging, Galatians showcases God's initiative to empower liberation from those systems and their relational toxicity. For Paul, the union of Christ with his followers fosters flourishing forms of relational life that testify to the sovereign power of God over all competing forces. In The Theology of Galatians, respected New Testament scholar Bruce Longenecker cuts through the complexity of a notoriously opaque text, disentangling and interpreting Paul's discourse to reveal its multifaceted cosmology, its comprehensive coherence, and its penetrating analysis humanity and the divine. Offering a new interpretation of Galatians, his volume synthesizes the best of four main interpretative alternatives, finding new solutions to scholarly gridlock.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Longenecker, Bruce

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Religionswissenschaft Sonstige Religionen Sonstige Religionen: Theologie, Doktrine

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Part I. Reading the Theology of Galatians: 1. An introduction to the study of Galatians; 2. An overview of the message of Galatians; 3. The discursive flow of Galatians; Part II. Probing the Theology of Galatians: 4. The problem in layered perspective; 5. The torah in layered perspective; 6. Participation in Christ as identity power-vortex; 7. Decentering identity values; 8. The slavery of Christ-giving love; 9. The hope of righteousness and the faithfulness of God; Part III. Positioning the Theology of Galatians: 10. Galatians and the New Testament; 11. The afterlife of Galatians; 12. What Paul might say; Appendix: Did Galatians Accomplish Paul's Purpose; Suggestions for further reading; Bibliography.

Über Autor(innen)

Longenecker, Bruce
Bruce Longenecker is the Melton Chair of Religion at Baylor University. He is the author of In Stone and Story: Early Christianity in the Roman World (2020), co-editor (with David Wilhite) of The Cambridge History of Ancient Christianity (2023), and editor of The Cambridge Companion to Paul (2020) and Greco-Roman Associations, Deities, and Early Christianity (2022).