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Eros and the Christ: Longing and Envy in Paul's Christology (Paul in Critical Contexts) by Fredrickson, David Earl is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.

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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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Author

Fredrickson, David Earl

Publisher

Fortress Press

Published

2013

Language

EN

ISBN

9781451426304

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Religion, Christian, Bible