Paul's Necessary Sin: The Experience of Liberation

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Ashgate Publishing, Ltd., 2006 - 245 pages
How can we know today what was happening in the minds and hearts of Paul and the first Christians so long ago? By getting below the surface of Paul's theology, the consistent key elements of early Christian experience are revealed in a way that throws li
 

Contents

Faiths New Way of Listening
29
The Freedom of Obedience
45
Childhood under
63
Childhood and Sin
89
Sin and Flesh
99
Infants in Christ
127
Coming of Age
145
The Inheritance
153
the Transformation of Jesus
175
the Transformation of a Few
191
the Transformation of All
211
Conclusion
229
Index of Greek words discussed
235
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Timothy Ashworth is Lecturer in Biblical Studies at Woodbrooke Quaker Study Centre, Birmingham, UK.

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