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Being and Becoming - Human Transformation in the Letters of Paul (Hardcover)
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Being and Becoming - Human Transformation in the Letters of Paul (Hardcover)
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In Being and Becoming, Frederick David Carr offers a fresh
examination of the theme of human transformation and identity in
Paul's letters. Carr structures his investigation beneath two acute
questions about Paul's writings: What does Paul mean when he speaks
of people being transformed? What do such transformations tell us
about Paul's understanding of the self? Carr's study yields new
insights into the apostle's anthropology, shedding light on the
interpretation of the Pauline canon. Carr approaches the topic of
"new creation" in Paul's letters analytically, comparatively, and
synthetically. Analytically, he gives special attention to specific
references to human transformation found in the Pauline epistles.
Comparatively, he places Paul's transformation references into
conversation with a range of other ancient writings, and in doing
so highlights the distinctiveness of the apostle's approach to
anthropological questions. Synthetically, he considers how these
varied references relate to one another and what they entail for
how we understand the apostle's thought. From these categories,
Carr develops a phenomenology of human transformation in Paul and
analyzes the "models" of selfhood at work in his language of human
change. Carr argues that Paul portrays human selfhood as, in part,
constituted by transformation. Unlike some writers in antiquity,
Paul does not describe change as a threat to the self-it is a
fundamental element of subjectivity. Foundational changes in this
life produce new moral selfhood in Christ's body, and
eschatological transformation will effect wholesale change. In the
present, believers' existence is determined by a state of becoming
in Christ. For Christ-followers, therefore, transformation is not
merely something that happens to the self, or just an aspect of who
a believer is, but rather a defining feature of selfhood.
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