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7 - What, for Paul, Are the Marks of Membership?

Bodies and Hearts

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  31 March 2022

Paul W. Gooch
Affiliation:
University of Toronto
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Those ‘in Christ’ should see themselves not as separate independent individuals, but as members of a body, the ‘body of Christ’. They are not merely collections of people put together for specific and limited purposes; they are also family members. What binds them, though, is not blood or genes. They belong together because they experience the love of God in Christ. God’s Spirit is poured out in them, flowing over into agapic love for each other. At least that is how Paul argues it should be.

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Paul and Religion
Unfinished Conversations
, pp. 126 - 154
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2022

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