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Constructing the World: A Study in Paul’s Cosmological Language is unavailable, but you can change that!

Dr. Adams focuses, in this ground-breaking study, on Paul’s understanding and use of the cosmological concepts ‘world’ and ‘creation’. He confronts this study by using current disciplines, such as critical linguistics, to understand the differing perspectives on the world found in 1 Corinthians and Romans by examining Paul’s historical and social context.

the Lucan community.35 Meeks36 and Rensberger37 engage in sectarian analysis of the Johannine community. Meeks,38 Watson39 and MacDonald bring the typology to bear on the Pauline social movement. MacDonald’s is the most thoroughgoing application of church-sect typology to Pauline Christianity. She charts the development of the Pauline communities through a three-stage process of “cumulative institutionalization”,40 in which a sect-type movement is transformed into a church-type one. The genuine
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