Eros and the Christ [Recurso electrónico] : Longing and Envy in Paul's Christology / David E. Frederickson.

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Includes bibliographical references (pages 159-173) and indexes.

Abbreviations -- Translations from the Loeb classical library -- Introduction -- Troubling presence -- Apostolic sweetness -- Kenōsis, or as the snow melts -- Abduction disregarded -- Not eaters of the people -- The politics of a manbride -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Index -- Biblical index.

Libro Electrónico

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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