Baptism and Resurrection: Studies in Pauline Theology against its Graeco-Roman BackgroundWipf and Stock Publishers, 01/01/2011 - 496 من الصفحات The assumption that Romans 6 and 1 Corinthians 15 reflects a borrowing of ideas from Graeco-Roman mystery initiations is not the likeliest explanation of these texts nor does justice either to recent studies of the mysteries nor to the difficulty in reinterpreting "resurrection" to refer to a spiritual state which the baptized enjoyed in the present. Spiritual phenomena may have shown early Christians in the Graeco-Roman world that they had "life," but not "resurrection." "Dying with Christ" has other roots than the mysteries and the latter should not be interpreted in the light of Paul, but dying and coming to life again is a theme common to a great many rites of passage. |
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The Problem and the New Testament Evidence | 1 |
The MysteryRelations and the World of Early Christianity | 90 |
The Spiritualizing of Resurrection | 164 |
Life in the Spirit | 233 |
Union with Christ | 296 |
Life Through Death | 360 |
Conclusions and PostScript | 393 |
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Indices | 437 |
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