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How did Paul understand time? Standard interpretations are that
Paul modified his inherited Jewish apocalyptic sequential two-age
temporality. Paul solved the conundrum of Christ's resurrection
occurring without the resurrection of the righteous by asserting
that the ages are not sequential but rather that they overlap.
Believers live in already-not yet temporality. In this
groundbreaking book, Ann Jervis instead proposes that Paul thought
not in terms of two ages but in terms of life in this age or life
in Christ. Humans apart from Christ live in this age, whereas
believers live entirely in the temporality of Christ. Christ's
temporality, like God's, is time in which change occurs--at least
between Christ and God and creation. Their temporality is tensed,
but the tenses are nonsequential. The past is in their present, as
is the future. However, this is not a changeless now but a now in
which change occurs (though not in the way that human chronological
time perceives change). Those joined to Christ live Christ's
temporality while also living chronological time. In clear writing,
Jervis engages both philosophical and traditional biblical
understandings of time. Her inquiry is motivated and informed by
the long-standing recognition of the centrality of union with
Christ for Paul. Jervis points out that union with Christ has
significant temporal implications. Living Christ's time transforms
believers' suffering, sinning, and physical dying. While in the
present evil age these are instruments purposed for destruction, in
Christ they are transformed in service of God's life. Living
Christ's time also changes the significance of the eschaton. It is
less important to those in Christ than it is for creation, for
those joined to the One over whom death has no dominion are already
released from bondage to corruption. Scholars and students will
profit from this lively contribution to Pauline studies, which
offers big-picture proposals based on detailed work with Paul's
letters. The book includes a foreword by John Barclay.
Even those put off by the word 'poetry' will find this a box of
treasures. Each poem is expertly crafted in a style to suit it,
starting with a thrilling adventure, followed by what children
think of adults, Christmas lights gone mad, an unforgettable
culinary disaster, a restaurant so bad it succeeds, the climate
crisis in a nutshell, a disastrous school outing, the joys of
becoming a grandmother, an island that moves, what tummy buttons
are for, as well as nonsense, rhyme and tongue-twisters, all
enlivened by Jim Housego's crisp and witty line drawings.
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