{"product_id":"all-of-you-are-one-9780567689313","title":"All of You are One","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis is a nicely put together, well-argued book... a valuable contribution to discussion of each of these three letters and of the structure of [Pau's] theology overall. -- Journal for the Study of The New Testament, Volume 33 Number 5\u003cbr\u003e... this is an indispensable beginning point for all  future studies of eschatology in 1 Thessalonians and in Paul's theology more  generally. -- Religious Studies Review\u003cbr\u003e\"Perhaps the most prominent refrain the Pauline corpus, says Hansen is the affirmation that unity in Christ overcomes the social division of Jew versus Greek, slave versus free, and other dichotomies. An ordained minister in San Francisco, he explores the background of the idea, its intended purpose for original readers, and its significance to believers today. Among his topics are reading Paul ethnically, the household of faith, the body of Christ, the new humanity, and unity as ethnic solidarity.\"   -Eithne O'Leyne, BOOK NEWS, Inc.\u003cbr\u003e\"Based on a doctoral dissertation presented to the University of St. Andrews in Scotland, this investigation of the Pauline formulaic affirmations that unity in Christ overcomes social divisions (Gal 3:28; 1 Cor 12:13; Col 3:11) argues that these texts support Paul's construal of the believers as a new ethnic group patterned on the identity of Israel as reenvisioned through Christ.  After a 31-page introduction, it clarifies ethnic theory and rhetoric as a means of enabling readers to recognize better Paul's discursive strategy.  Then it examines the three key texts: Gal 3:28 and the household of faith, 1 Cor 12:13 and the body of Christ, and Col 3:11 and the new humanity.  Hansen concludes that for Paul the unity formula finds its bearings in reference to the story of God fashioning a new people on the basis of the stories of Israel and of Christ.\"  -New Testament Abstracts, Vol. 54\u003cbr\u003e'By applying the conceptual apparatus of 'ethnic theory' to the Pauline letters, he suggests that Paul attempts to supply his churches with a fictive kinship myth that renders them a new ethnos, drawn from Jews as well as Gentiles, rather than either group being subsumed to the other. In this way, Paul fashions for his churches a 'diaspora identity' (for which Hansen follows D Boyrain), but one that, rather than obliterating social differences between individuals, seeks to create a space that prevents any one pre-existing identity marker (such as circumcision) serving as a normative for all (pace Boyarin). This identity functions within a broadly bounded set of boundary-marking 'indices' that concern avoidance of idoltary and sexual immorality, and adherence to communal solidarity and Christ-like sacrificial love. There is much of value in this careful investigation.' David Lincicum, Mansfield College, Oxford  -- David Lincicum * Theological Book Review *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCONTENTS  Acknowledgements  Abbreviations  CHAPTER ONE: INTRODUCTION  I. The Formula  a. Formal Observations  II. Previous Interpretive Approaches  a. Hellenistic Philosophy  b. Gnosticism  c. Paul's Response to Judaism  III. Ethnic Unity and Paul  a. Social Unity in Paul's Churches  IV. Summary  CHAPTER TWO: READING PAUL ETHNICALLY  I. Defining Ethnicity  a. The Need for Clarity  II. Genealogy and Autochthony  a. Genealogy and Autochthony in Paul  III. Indices of the Genealogical Criteria  a. Consubstantiality: Commensality, Connubiality and Common Cult  IV. Ethnic Discourse  a. An Example from Hellenistic Judaism  V. Acculturation, Assimilation and Ethnogenesis  VI. Summary  CHAPTER THREE: GALATIANS 3.28 AND THE HOUSEHOLD OF FAITH  I. Introduction: Galatians 3.28 in Epistolary Context  II. Disunity in Jerusalem and Antioch: Galatians 2.1-14  III. Paul's Speech: Galatians 2.14c-21  IV. Urging Unity: Galatians 5-6  V. Social Identity in Apocalyptic Perspective  VI. Galatians 3-4: Identity and Unity in Christ  a. Centrality of 3.28 to Galatians 3-4  b. The Singular Identity of All in Christ  1. Heirs of Faithful Abraham  2. The Cross versus the Law  VII. Ethnic Identity  VIII. Summary  CHAPTER FOUR: 1 CORINTHIANS 12.13 AND THE BODY OF CHRIST  I. Introduction  a. 1 Corinthians in Socio-Historical Context  b. Unity as Ethnic Identity in the Letter Opening  II. Ethnicity among Images for Unity  a. h9 e0kklhsi\/a  b. Israel  c. Building  d. The Body of Christ  1. The Body and Sexual Union  2. The Body and Common Cult  3. ‘Body' in 1 Corinthians 12 and 15  e. Family and Household  f. Summary: Ethnicity and Paul's Images for Unity  III. Ethnic Identity and the Unity Formula in Paul's Parenesis: 1 Corinthians 5-14  a. 1 Corinthians 5-7 1. 1 Corinthians 5.1-13 2. 1 Corinthians 6.1-11 3. 1 Corinthians 6.12-20 4. 1 Corinthians 7  b. 1 Corinthians 8.1-11.1: Divisions over Idol Meat  c. 1 Corinthians 11.2-14.40: Divisions in Worship  1. Divisions Arising from Social Status Conflicts  2. Ethnic Concord and the Body of Christ  IV. Summary CHAPTER FIVE: COLOSSIANS 3.11 AND THE NEW HUMANITY  I. Introduction  II. Social Identity and Solidarity in Colossians 1.1-2.23  a. Colossians 1.1-23: Prayer and Thanksgiving  1. Traditional Material in 1.13-20  b. Paul's Exemplum: 1.24-2.7  c. The Polemical Core: 2.8-23  1. Apocalyptic Disruption  2. The Body of Christ  III. Seeking Unity in Christ: 3.1-4.6  IV. Unity as Ethnic Solidarity  a. Ethnic Criterion of Genealogy  b. Confirming Indices of Ethnicity  1. Boundaries  2. Kinship Norms  3. Household  V. Summary  CHAPTER SIX: CONCLUSIONS  I. The Aims and Methodology of this Study  II. Conclusions of this Study  a. Galatians 3.28 in Epistolary Context  b. 1 Corinthians 12.13 in Epistolary Context  c. Colossians 3.11 in Epistolary Context  d. Synthesis  WORKS CITED  Ancient Texts  Secondary Sources","brand":"Bloomsbury Publishing (UK)","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51018299048279,"sku":"9780567689313","price":33.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780567689313.jpg?v=1750776348","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/all-of-you-are-one-9780567689313","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}