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Death and Life (Hardcover)
Andrew K. Boakye; Foreword by Peter Oakes
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Oakes and Boakye rethink Galatians by examining the text as a
vision for the lives of its hearers. They show how, in tackling the
difficulties that he faces in Galatia, Paul offers a vision of what
the Galatians are in their relationship with the living Christ.
This offers a new understanding of the concept of unity in
diversity expressed in Gal 3:28. The authors develop their views
over six chapters. First, Oakes maps a route from the letter to a
focus on its Galatian hearers and on Paul's vision for their
identity and existence. In the next chapter, Oakes uses the
Christology of Galatians as a way to support the idea of pistis as
current relationship with the living Christ. Boakye then offers
three chapters analysing the letter's scriptural quotations and
ideas about salvation and law. Boakye sees a key dynamic at work in
Galatians as being a movement from death to life, as prophesied
metaphorically by Ezekiel and as made literal for Paul in his
encounter with the resurrected Christ, trust in whom becomes the
route to life. Life becomes a key category for evaluating law.
Boakye also draws Galatians close to Romans 4 in seeing in both
texts the promise of the birth of Isaac, with Paul closely tying
that to the resurrection of Jesus. Oakes then argues that the
letter has a thematic concern for unity in diversity. In the first
instance this is between Jews and gentiles but, in principle, it is
between any other socially significant pair of groups.
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