1 and 2 Peter (Brazos Theological Commentary on the Bible

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In this volume theologian Douglas Harink looks at 1 & 2 Peter through the theological lens of Christians living in empire. In 1 Peter, he believes there is a rich theology waiting to be taken from the world of Peter’s readers and brought thoughtfully in our own. In 2 Peter Harink traces a radically different trajectory as he examines the theological emphases found in the second book that to most...

identical with herself.… The church is the body of Christ for the world and for her members, in that she is constituted a community by the verbal and ‘visible’ presence to her of that same body of Christ. The body of Christ is at once this sacramental presence within the church’s assembly, to make that assembly a community, and is the church-community herself for the world and her members.”7 As Peter makes clear later (2:9, 12), Christ creates and indwells this corporate body as his own temple, priesthood,

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