Book contents
- Paul and Religion
- Cambridge Studies in Religion, Philosophy, and Society
- Paul and Religion
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Preface
- 1 What Does Paul Have to Do with Religion?
- 2 What Kind of Religious Interlocutor Is Paul?
- 3 What Is the Religious Form of Life for Paul?
- 4 What Does the Pauline Religious Form of Life Have to Do with Death?
- 5 What, for Paul, Is the Nature of the Religious Form of Community?
- 6 How, for Paul, Should Life ‘in Christ’ Be Lived?
- 7 What, for Paul, Are the Marks of Membership?
- 8 How, for Paul, Does a Religious Community Relate to Others?
- 9 Paul and Religion
- Select Bibliography
- Locorum Index
- Subject Index
4 - What Does the Pauline Religious Form of Life Have to Do with Death?
Amazing Grace
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 31 March 2022
Book contents
- Paul and Religion
- Cambridge Studies in Religion, Philosophy, and Society
- Paul and Religion
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Preface
- 1 What Does Paul Have to Do with Religion?
- 2 What Kind of Religious Interlocutor Is Paul?
- 3 What Is the Religious Form of Life for Paul?
- 4 What Does the Pauline Religious Form of Life Have to Do with Death?
- 5 What, for Paul, Is the Nature of the Religious Form of Community?
- 6 How, for Paul, Should Life ‘in Christ’ Be Lived?
- 7 What, for Paul, Are the Marks of Membership?
- 8 How, for Paul, Does a Religious Community Relate to Others?
- 9 Paul and Religion
- Select Bibliography
- Locorum Index
- Subject Index
Summary
Being ‘in Christ’ is a new creation, says Paul, reminding us that the structural flaws in our current condition are beyond our repair. But (to pick up one of his own phrases), nature itself teaches us that the new has to emerge out of the dissolution of the old. Even fools know that what you sow does not come to life unless it dies (1 Cor. 15:36). Although Paul’s resurrection language refers to life beyond this mortal life, after the death of the body, Paul also writes in a non-literal way about his own dying.
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- Paul and ReligionUnfinished Conversations, pp. 64 - 82Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2022