Pauline dogmatics: the triumph of God's love
Jesus -- Vigilance -- A God of love -- A God of story -- Resurrection and death -- Resurrection and sin -- Defending resurrection -- Election -- A learning community -- Leaders -- Love is all you need -- Loving as giving -- Loving as faithfulness -- Loving as peacemaking -- Loving as enjoying -- An...
| Summary: | Jesus -- Vigilance -- A God of love -- A God of story -- Resurrection and death -- Resurrection and sin -- Defending resurrection -- Election -- A learning community -- Leaders -- Love is all you need -- Loving as giving -- Loving as faithfulness -- Loving as peacemaking -- Loving as enjoying -- An apostolic foundation -- Defining the other -- The triumph of love -- Mission as friendship -- Missional diversity -- Evaluating paganism -- Transforming paganism -- Request ethics -- Rethinking creation -- Navigating sex and marriage -- Navigating gender -- Beyond colonialism -- Beyond supersessionism -- The pastor's wisdom. The eschatological heart of Paul's gospel in his world and its implications for today. Drawing upon thirty years of intense study and reflection on Paul, Douglas Campbell offers a distinctive overview of the apostle's thinking that builds on Albert Schweitzer's classic emphasis on the importance for Paul of the resurrection. But Campbell -- learning here from Karl Barth -- traces through the implications of Christ for Paul's thinking about every other theological topic, from revelation and the resurrection through the nature of the church and mission. As he does so, the conversation broadens to include Stanley Hauerwas in relation to Christian formation, and thinkers like Willie Jennings to engage post-colonial concerns. But the result of this extensive conversation is a work that, in addition to providing a description of Paul's theology, also equips readers with what amounts to a Pauline manual for church planting. Good Pauline theology is good practical theology, ecclesiology, and missiology, which is to say, Paul's theology belongs to the church and, properly understood, causes the church to flourish. In these conversations Campbell pushes through interdisciplinary boundaries to explicate different aspects of Pauline community with notions like network theory and restorative justice. The book concludes by moving to applications of Paul in the modern period to painful questions concerning gender, sexual activity, and Jewish inclusion, offering Pauline navigations that are orthodox, inclusive, and highly constructive. Beginning with the God revealed in Jesus, and in a sense with ourselves, Campbell progresses through Pauline ethics and eschatology, concluding that the challenge for the church is not only to learn about Paul but to follow Jesus as he did |
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| Item Description: | Includes bibliographical references and index |
| ISBN: | 1467458228 |