Eros and the Christ: Longing and Envy in Paul's Christology

Eros and the Christ: Longing and Envy in Paul's Christology
ISBN-10
0800698231
ISBN-13
9780800698232
Category
Religion
Pages
181
Language
English
Published
2013-06-01
Publisher
Fortress Press
Author
David E. Fredrickson

Description

The self-emptying of Christ (kenosis) in Philippians 2 has long been the focus of attention by Christian theologians and interpreters of Paul's Christology. David E. Fredrickson sheds dramatic new light on familiar texts by discussing the centuries-old language of love and longing in Greek and Roman epistolary literature, showing that a "physics" of desire was related to notions of power and dominance. Paul's kenotic Christology challenged not only received notions of the power of the gods but of the very nature of love itself as a component of human society.

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