Book contents
- Paul’s Gospel of Divine Self-Sacrifice
- Paul’s Gospel of Divine Self-Sacrifice
- Copyright page
- Epigraph
- Contents
- Preface
- 1 Gospel of Righteous Self-Sacrifice
- 2 Faith Grounded in Self-Sacrifice
- 3 Incarnational Ethics of Self-Sacrifice
- 4 Hope and Fear toward Divine Self-Sacrifice
- 5 Responsible Agency toward Divine Self-Sacrifice
- 6 Assessing God’s Gambit in Self-Sacrifice
- Select Bibliography
- Index
1 - Gospel of Righteous Self-Sacrifice
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 08 September 2022
- Paul’s Gospel of Divine Self-Sacrifice
- Paul’s Gospel of Divine Self-Sacrifice
- Copyright page
- Epigraph
- Contents
- Preface
- 1 Gospel of Righteous Self-Sacrifice
- 2 Faith Grounded in Self-Sacrifice
- 3 Incarnational Ethics of Self-Sacrifice
- 4 Hope and Fear toward Divine Self-Sacrifice
- 5 Responsible Agency toward Divine Self-Sacrifice
- 6 Assessing God’s Gambit in Self-Sacrifice
- Select Bibliography
- Index
Summary
This chapter summarizes Paul’s gospel of divine self-sacrifice, giving special attention to the character of the righteous God responsible for his gospel. It identifies how divine righteousness figures in a solution to the human predicament of the corrosive powers of sin and death by offering a remedy in reparative self-sacrifice. The needed reparative sacrifice begins with divine self-sacrifice that includes the sacrifice of the Son of God, Jesus Christ, but it does not end there. It calls for human reciprocity in self-sacrifice to God, as voluntary sharing in the life-giving obedience of Jesus Christ to God. The chapter identifies how God agitates in human history to attract the cooperation of humans in such reparative self-sacrifice. This divine effort is at the center of God’s righteous love for humans, regardless of their national, ethnic, or religious background. Paul focused his calling from God on the good news that God has intervened in human history, climactically in Jesus Christ, to attract humans to cooperation with this good news.
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- Paul's Gospel of Divine Self-SacrificeRighteous Reconciliation in Reciprocity, pp. 1 - 41Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2022