Paul And The Power Of Sin and The Story of Angels and Nature

Paul And The Power Of Sin

Name: Paul And The Power Of Sin
Price: 33.08 GBP
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Author: T. L. Carter (leamington Spa Baptist Church)
ISBN: 9780521020701

Redefining 'Beyond the Pale'

by T. L. Carter (leamington Spa Baptist Church)

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256 pages
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
21.7 x 14.1 x 1.5 cm

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Paul and the Power of Sin seeks to ground Paul's language of sin in the socio-cultural context of his original letters. T. L. Carter draws on the work of social anthropologist Mary Douglas to conduct a cross-cultural analysis of the symbolism of the power of sin in the letters, examining thoroughly Douglas' 'Grid and Group' model and defending its use as a heuristic tool for New Testament scholars. He uses this model to examine the social location of Paul and the communities to which he wrote and offers a fresh insight into key passages from 1 Corinthians, Galatians and Romans. Carter concludes that an important part of Paul's purpose was to safeguard the position of law-free Gentile believers by redrawing social boundaries along eschatological rather than ethnic lines.