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Book SynopsisPaul's Sexual and Marital Ethics in 1 Corinthians 7: An African-Cameroonian Perspective provides readers with an innovative interpretation of Paul's pastoral and pedagogical approach and solutions to the multifaceted ethical problems presented to him by the Corinthian community, revealing a wide-ranging, complex, and flexible decision-making process. Alice Yafeh's analysis also illuminates two different evaluations of the same ethical problem may be simultaneously relevant where operating assumptions diverge: first as a community in pursuance of the goal of undistracted devotion to the Lord, and, second, as individual members who must pursue that goal within the specific lifestyles in which they have been called.
The author argues that Paul's pastoral and theological approach, which is deeply motivated by a desire to inspire faithful Christian living and witness, can serve as a new model for evaluating pre-conversion polygyny; a model that is oriented toward positive and sub
Trade Review«Au lendemain d’un synode sur la famille, ce livre constitue une contribution importante au débat sur cette question pastorale dans les Églises chrétiennes en Afrique.»
(C.-A. Folifack, Nouvelle revue théologique 138-4 2016)
Table of ContentsContents: A Rhetorical-Exegetical Analysis of 1 Corinthians 7 – The Cultural and Linguistic Context of 1 Corinthians 7: Intertexture, Social, and Ideological Textures – From Paul to His Interpreters: A Selective Cross-Cultural Interpretive History – 1 Corinthians 7 and the Debate over Marriage and Celibacy during the Patristic Period – Augustine’s Existential Struggles with Sexual Lust – Marriage and Virginity in the Reformation Era: Martin Luther and John Calvin – Polygyny: A Test Case for an Afro-Womanist-Feminist Cultural Hermeneutics – Moving from Paul’s Context to the Presbyterian Church in Cameroon – Polygynous Marriages in Cameroon – Approach to the Question of Polygyny in the PCC.
