Paul and the religious experience of reconciliation : diasporic community and Creole consciousness
"Here, using the phenomenological tradition of Edmund Husserl and the understanding of religious experience as delineated by William James, Gilbert Bond reaches back to the New Testament to interpret the story of Paul's conversion, paying close attention to Paul's identity and the character of the stunningly diverse community in which he lived. In doing so, Bond reveals that the importance of Paul's mystical transformation is to be found in the dense description of communities he tried to create. No longer a guardian of the exclusive ritualized space of Pharisaic fellowship, Paul becomes a "creolizer," assimilating into his identity disparate elements of his society and welcoming slaves, women, Jews, and Greeks into a radically inclusive Christian fellowship. As such, Paul's legacy for Christians is his dramatic example of how the message of Christ should inform the way we live in the world, with the neighbors God has created for us."--Jacket
eBook, English, ©2005
Westminster John Knox Press, Louisville, Ky., ©2005
1 online resource (x, 179 pages)
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