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5 - What, for Paul, Is the Nature of the Religious Form of Community?

Body, Family, Love

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  31 March 2022

Paul W. Gooch
Affiliation:
University of Toronto
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What does it mean to be ‘in Christ’ for social and ethical relationships? This ‘new life’ is not so much individual conversion into being a different person as it is belonging to a ‘new creation’, being granted status as members of something that did not previously exist. We need to consider the ways in which Paul describes this community, asking what holds it together. In Chapter 6 we will consider how its members should behave towards each other. Chapter 7 asks about marks of membership: what practices identify who belongs? Questions about the relationship between insiders and outsiders come in Chapter 8.

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Paul and Religion
Unfinished Conversations
, pp. 83 - 106
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2022

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