Being Conformed to Christ in Community A Study of Maturity, Maturation and the Local Church in the Undisputed Pauline Epistles

by Samra, James G.

• ISBN13: 9780567563989
• ISBN10: 0567563987
• eBook ISBN(s): 9780567364661
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2008-11-15
• Publisher: Bloomsbury T & T Clark
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Explores Paul's conception of maturity, paying attention to the maturation process and the role of the local church in facilitating this process. An exegetical-theological study of the seven generally accepted epistles, this work makes heuristic use of th

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CHAPTER 1: INTRODUCTION 1.1INTRODUCTION1 1.2CHOICE AND CLARIFICATION OF TERMINOLOGY 1.3THE NEED FOR THIS STUDY 1.4SCOPE AND TYPE OF STUDY 1.5THE INDIVIDUAL AND THE GROUP IN PAUL: AN INTRODUCTORY ISSUE 1.6OVERVIEW AND ORGANIZATION OF THE THESIS CHAPTER 2: HEURISTIC STUDIES: MODERN PSYCHOLOGY, QUMRAN AND THE THERAPEUTAE48 2.1 INTRODUCTION 2.2 MODERN PSYCHOLOGY 2.3 THE QUMRAN COMMUNITY 2.4 THE THERAPEUTAE CHAPTER 3: THE MATURATIONAL ASPECT OF PAUL'S APOSTOLIC COMMISSION 3.1INTRODUCTION 3.2CENTRAL PASSAGES FOR PAUL'S UNDERSTANDING OF HIS MISSION 3.3FURTHER PASSAGES 3.4MOSES AS A MODEL FOR PAUL 3.5CHURCH AND THE MATURATIONAL ASPECT OF PAUL'S COMMISSION 3.6CONCLUSION CHAPTER 4: GENERAL CONSIDERATIONS REGARDING MATURITY AND MATURATION 4.1 INTRODUCTION 4.2MARKS OF MATURITY 4.3CHRIST AS THE STANDARD OF MATURITY 4.4MATURING AS A PROCESS 4.5 CONCLUSION CHAPTER 5: THE CENTRAL MOTIF OF MATURITY: CONFORMITY TO THE IMAGE OF CHRIST 5.1INTRODUCTION 5.2EXEGESIS OF TEXTS 5.3ANALYSIS OF THE MOTIF OF CONFORMITY TO THE IMAGE OF CHRIST 5.4CONFORMITY TO CHRIST AS CENTRAL TO PAUL'S THEOLOGY AND THE CENTRAL MOTIF OF MATURITY 5.5CONCLUSION CHAPTER 6: COMPONENTS OF THE MATURATION PROCESS 6.1 INTRODUCTION 6.2IDENTIFYING WITH CHRIST 6.3 ENDURING SUFFERING 6.4EXPERIENCING THE PRESENCE OF GOD 6.5RECEIVING AND LIVING OUT WISDOM FROM GOD 6.6IMITATING A GODLY EXAMPLE 6.7 CONCLUSION CHAPTER 7: THE ROLE OF THE LOCAL COMMUNITY IN THE MATURATION PROCESS 7.1INTRODUCTION 7.2PAUL'S THEOLOGICAL CONCEPTION OF CHURCH 7.3 PAUL'S EXPECTATION FOR THE LOCAL COMMUNITY: AN EXAMINATION OF 1 CORINTHIANS 7.4THE LOCAL CHURCH AND THE COMPONENTS OF THE MATURATION PROCESS 7.5CONCLUSION CHAPTER 8: CONCLUSIONS