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Book SynopsisThe very essence of the existential relationship between the human and the divine is communicated by the English word, worship'. Although the word appears to carry a univocal meaning in English, no such word per se exists in the Greek New Testament. The English word at best explains but does not adequately and completely define the dynamics involved in the relationship between humanity and God.
Worship and the Risen Jesus in the Pauline Letters approaches the subject of Christian worship in respect to its origins from the perspective of the earliest New Testament writer: Paul. This book seeks to address the relative absence in scholarship of a full treatment of worship in the Pauline Letters. Closely related to the theme of Christian worship in the Pauline Letters is the person of the risen Jesus and the place he occupies in the faith community. This work proposes a proper working definition of, including criteria for, worship'. Paul employed an array of Greek words as descripto
Trade Review«The book by C[osta] is a most welcome contribution to the study of worship in the NT and of the place of the risen Christ in worship.»
(Léon van Ommen, Biblische Zeitschrift 2/2017)
