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Paul and the Person: Reframing Paul’s Anthropology is unavailable, but you can change that!

In this book Susan Grove Eastman presents a fresh and innovative exploration of Paul’s participatory theology in conversation with both ancient and contemporary conceptions of the self. Juxtaposing Paul, ancient philosophers, and modern theorists of the person, Eastman opens up a conversation that illuminates Paul’s thought in new ways and brings his voice into current debates about personhood. ...

call anthropology crystallized cosmology and to term every person the projection of his respective world and that world’s Lord. How is this antithesis to be bridged?”1 Indeed, whether Paul even thought in terms of persons is a debated question.2 I think that he did, but not with an abstract or individualistic concept “person.” Rather, he displays a functional understanding of human beings as relationally constituted agents who are both embodied and embedded in their world. Exploring that understanding
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