Being Conformed to Christ in Community A Study of Maturity Maturation and the Local Church in the Undisputed Pauline Epistles The Library of New Testament Studies Vol 320 1st Edition by James Samra ISBN 9780567563989 0567563987
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Author: James G. Samra
Table of contents:
Chapter 1: INTRODUCTION
1.1 INTRODUCTION
1.2 CHOICE AND CLARIFICATION OF TERMINOLOGY
1.2.1
‘Being Conformed to Christ’
1.2.2 ‘Maturity/Maturation’
1.2.3 ‘Church’
1.3 THE NEED FOR THIS STUDY
1.3.1 Lack of Attention to Maturity
1.3.2 The Need for Further Definition: A Survey of Scholarship
1.3.2.1 Adolf Schlatter
1.3.2.2
Ernst Käsemann
1.3.2.3 Ed Parish Sanders
1.3.2.4 James D. G. Dunn
1.3.2.5 Wayne Meeks
1.3.2.6 Richard Hays
1.3.2.7 Troels Engberg-Pedersen
1.3.2.8 Michael Gorman
1.3.2.9 Summary
1.4 SCOPE AND TYPE OF STUDY
1.5 THE INDIVIDUAL AND THE GROUP IN PAUL:
AN INTRODUCTORY ISSUE
1.5.1
Introduction
1.5.2 Paul’s Conception of the Individual
1.5.3 The Group in Paul
1.5.4 Bringing the Group and the Individual Together
1.6 OVERVIEW AND ORGANIZATION OF THE THESIS
Chapter 2:
THE MATURATIONAL ASPECT OF PAUL’S APOSTOLIC COMMISSION
2.1 INTRODUCTION
2.1.1 שלח and ἀπόστολος
2.2 CENTRAL PASSAGES FOR PAUL’S UNDERSTANDING OF HIS MISSION
2.2.1 1 Thessalonians 2.17-3.13
2.2.2 Philippians 2.12-18
Romans 15.14-21 2.2.3
2.3 FURTHER PASSAGES
2.3.1 2 Corinthians 1.12-14; 3.1-3; 10.8-11 (13.10); 11.2-4, 28;
12.19-21
2.3.2
1 Corinthians 9.1-10.13 and 12.27-30
2.3.3 Galatians 1.17-2.10 and 4.8-20
2.3.4 Romans 1.8-15
2.3.5 Philippians 1.22-6
2.3.6 1 Corinthians 1.17
2.4 MOSES AS A MODEL FOR PAUL
2.5 CHURCH AND THE MATURATIONAL ASPECT OF PAUL’S COMMISSION
2.5.1 Local Community ‘Building Up’ and ‘Comforting’
2.5.2 Whether Present or Absent
2.6 CONCLUSION
Chapter 3:
GENERAL CONSIDERATIONS REGARDING MATURITY AND MATURATION
3.1 INTRODUCTION
3.2 MARKS OF MATURITY
3.2.1 1 Corinthians 2.6-3.4
3.2.1.1 Introduction
3.2.1.2 Explanation of 2.6-3.4
3.2.1.3 Importance for the Study of Maturity
3.2.2 Mature, Complete, Perfect
3.2.3 Spiritual
3.2.4 Holy
3.2.5 Free
3.2.6 Wise
3.2.7 Strong
3.2.8 Christlike
3.3 CHRIST AS THE STANDARD OF MATURITY
3.3.1 Being ‘In Christ’ as an Affirmation of Status
3.3.2 Christ as Model and the Imitation of Christ
3.3.3 The Law of Christ
3.3.4 The Character of Christ and the Historical Jesus
3.3.5 Summary
3.4 MATURING AS A PROCESS
3.4.1 Introduction: Stative versus Process
3.4.2 Words and Ideas Expressing Maturation-Related Process Phenomena
3.4.2.1 Aὐξάνω
3.4.2.2 Προκοπή, προκόπτω
3.4.2.3 ᾿Επιτελέω and ἐνάρχομαι
3.4.2.4 Τέλειος, τελειόω
3.4.2.5 ᾿Ανακαι νόω
3.4.2.6 Στηρίζω, ἐνδυναμόω, κραταιόω
3.4.2.7 Οἰκοδομέω, οἰκοδομή
3.4.2.8 Καταρτίζω, κατάρτισις
3.4.2.9 ἐπίγνωσις
3.4.2.10 Περισσεύω, πλεονάζω
3.4.2.11 Διώκω, τρέχω
3.4.2.12 Γίνομαι
3.4.2.13 Parent-Child Language
3.4.3 Philippians 3.12-15
3.4.4 Summary
3.5 CONCLUSION
Chapter 4: THE CENTRAL MOTIF OF MATURITY:
CONFORMITY TO THE IMAGE OF CHRIST
4.1 INTRODUCTION
4.2 EXEGESIS OF TEXTS
4.2.1 Philippians 3.7-21
4.2.2 Romans 8.29, 12.1-2
4.2.3 2 Corinthians 2.14-4.18
4.2.4 1 Corinthians 15
4.2.5 Galatians 3.26-4.20
4.3 ANALYSIS OF THE MOTIF OF CONFORMITY TO THE IMAGE OF CHRIST
4.4 CONFORMITY TO CHRIST AS CENTRAL TO PAUL’S THEOLOGY AND THE CENTRAL MOTIF OF MATURITY
4.5 CONCLUSION
Chapter 5:
COMPONENTS OF THE MATURATION PROCESS
5.1 INTRODUCTION
5.2 IDENTIFYING WITH CHRIST
5.3 ENDURING SUFFERING
5.4 EXPERIENCING THE PRESENCE OF GOD
5.5 RECEIVING AND LIVING OUT WISDOM FROM GOD
5.5.1 Where Wisdom from God is Found
5.5.2 Living Out Wisdom from God
5.6 IMITATING A GODLY EXAMPLE
5.6.1 The Concept of Imitation
5.6.2 Paul and Others as Ethical Examples
5.7 CONCLUSION
Chapter 6: THE ROLE OF THE LOCAL COMMUNITY IN THE MATURATION PROCESS
6.1 INTRODUCTION
6.2 PAUL’S THEOLOGICAL CONCEPTION OF CHURCH
6.3 PAUL’S EXPECTATION FOR THE LOCAL COMMUNITY:
AN EXAMINATION OF 1 CORINTHIANS
6.3.1
1 Corinthians 1.4-9: Κοινωνία: The Provision of a Faithful God
6.3.2
1 Corinthians 1.10: Being Made Complete
6.3.3
1 Corinthians 3: The Place of Growth
6.3.3.1 Paul’s Expectations for Maturity (3.1-4)
6.3.3.2 The Idea of Growth (3.5-15).
6.3.3.3 The Church as Temple (3.16-17)
6.3.3.4 Becoming Wise (3.18-23).
6.3.4
1 Corinthians 6.1-11: Another Defeat for the Corinthians
6.3.4.1 Failing to Be Conformed to Christ and Despising the Church
6.3.4.2 Suffering Loss
6.3.5 1 Corinthians 11.17-22. Doing More Harm Than Good
6.3.6 1 Corinthians 14: The Common Good which is the Building Up of Others
6.3.7 Conclusion
6.4 THE LOCAL CHURCH AND THE COMPONENTS OF THE
MATURATION PROCESS
6.4.1 Church and Identifying with Christ
6.4.1.1 The Church as the Body of Christ
6.4.1.2 Eucharist and Baptism
6.4.2
Church and Enduring Suffering
6.4.2.1 Philippians 1.27-2.4
6.4.2.2 1 Thessalonians
6.4.2.3 2 Corinthians 1.3-7
6.4.3 Church and Experiencing God’s Presence
6.4.3.1 Church as Temple
6.4.3.2 The Lord’s Presence during Discipline and the Lord’s Supper
6.4.3.3
The Presence of God during Worship
6.4.4 Church and Receiving and Living Out Wisdom from God
6.4.4.1 Church as Place Where Wisdom is Received
6.4.4.2 Church as the Place Where Wisdom is Lived Out
6.4.5 Church and Imitating a Godly Example
6.5 CONCLUSION
Chapter 7: CONCLUSIONS
Bibliography
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