ENGLISH

Philippians: Let Us Rejoice in Being Conformed to Christ

By John Paul Heil

Book information

Publisher
Society of Biblical Literature
Year
2010
ISBN
1589834828, 9781589834828
Google Books ID
i4u42_PsPNsC
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
2 MB (1722716 bytes)
Series
Early Christianity and Its Literature 3
Pages
xii+206\219
Topic
Religion
Orientation
yes
Paginated
yes
Scanned
portrait
Time added
2013-05-20 12:42:35

Description

This volume employs a text-centered, literary-rhetorical, and audience-oriented method to demonstrate how the implied audience of Philippians are persuaded and exhorted by the dynamic progression of the letter s chiastic structures to rejoice along with Paul and other believers in being conformed, with all of the broad implications of such conformity, to Christ. This reading assumes that Philippians is a single, unified letter written to be read and heard in a public setting as an oral performance substituting for the personal presence of the imprisoned Paul, and it proposes new chiastic structures for the entire letter as a key to understanding it.

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