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God as Father in Paul

God as Father in Paul

Mengestu, Abera M.

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Bible StudiesGeneral Christianity

ISBN10: 1620321939
ISBN13: 9781620321935
Publisher: Pickwick Publications
Published: Aug 28 2013
Pages: 262
Weight: 0.83
Height: 0.57 Width: 6.10 Depth: 8.97
Language: English
God as Father in Paul explores Paul's use of the kinship term Father to refer to God, along with related familial terms (children of God and Christ-followers as brothers and sisters), as part of a study of the use of kinship language in the identity formation of early Christianity. Mengestu argues that these kinship terms are shared modes of identity constructions within the wider textual and cultural settings (the Roman Empire, the Roman Stoic philosophers, the Hebrew Bible, and ancient Jewish literature) from which Paul draws on as well as contests. Employing theoretical (kinship and social identity theory) as well as interpretative approaches (imperial critical and narrative approaches to Paul), he contends that Paul uses God as Father consistently, strategically, and purposefully, in both stable and crisis situations, to develop a narrative, orienting framework(s) that images the community of Christ-followers as a family that belongs to God, who, together with the Lord Jesus Christ, bestows on them equal but diverse membership in the family. The narrative so constructed forms the foundation for referring to Christ-followers as children of God and brothers and sisters of one another. It constructs boundaries and serves as nexus of transformation and negotiation.

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