Participation in Christ: Reasoning (Romans 15:5) and the Form of the Body (Philippians 3:21)
The topic of participation in Christ has remained a distinctive area in Pauline scholarship throughout the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. Scholars have raised a pressing critique, however, that "participation" has become a vague concept such that its use for exegesis of Paul is limi...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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2024
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The catholic biblical quarterly
Year: 2024, Volume: 86, Issue: 4, Pages: 780-800 |
| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Bible. Römerbrief 15,5-7
/ Bible. Philipperbrief 3,21
/ Participation in
/ Paul Apostle
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| IxTheo Classification: | FB Theological education HC New Testament NAA Systematic theology NBF Christology NBK Soteriology |
| Further subjects: | B
Participation
B Reasoning B Mind B Philippians 3:21 B Romans 15:5 B conformation B Body |
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| Summary: | The topic of participation in Christ has remained a distinctive area in Pauline scholarship throughout the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. Scholars have raised a pressing critique, however, that "participation" has become a vague concept such that its use for exegesis of Paul is limited. This recent critique resembles E. P. Sanders’s earlier concern in the late 1970s that scholars appear to lack a category of "reality" that corresponds to Paul’s experience of participating in Christ. In light of this problem, I argue that the interpretive category of participation can be expanded further without losing its coherence. To develop this argument, I first chart a history of scholarship by focusing on participatory motifs that scholars have recently identified. Then, in the following sections, I analyze two motifs that have not been sufficiently integrated into this research on participation: (1) reasoning in accordance with Christ in Rom 15:5; (2) the form of the body conformed to Christ’s glorified body in Phil 3:21. Finally, I discuss the conceptual linkage between these two Pauline passages. In conclusion, these two motifs will allow scholarship to move toward more nuanced perspectives on how Paul envisions participation in Christ. |
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| ISSN: | 2163-2529 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: The catholic biblical quarterly
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1353/cbq.2024.a940011 |