Galatians Re-Imagined: Reading With The Eyes Of The Vanquished (Paul In Critical Contexts)

Uncircumcised messianic Galatians are no longer enslaved to those who by nature are not gods (Gal 4:8), but have become known by God and one with Israel, included as sons of Abraham without the need for circumcision, representing the eschatological movement of the nations turning to God, the beginning of a new creation triggered by the resurrection of God's crucified Son. Only if they keep their foreskins are they truly "nations." Only if they worship God alone, uncircumcised as they are, do they testify to the new creation that has started to transform the world. Their circumcision would not be a return to Jewish orthodoxy (for they have never been Jews) but, on the contrary, a concession to imperial idolatry, that compromises with a world ordered in the image of Caesar. 9781451488074 1451488076 0 Religion NOT_MATURE http://books.google.com/books/content?id=y23yoAEACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=5&source=gbs_api en

• • Author: Brigitte Kahl
• • Publisher: Fortress Press
• • Publication Date: Apr 01, 2014
• • Number of Pages: 440 pages
• • Language: English
• • Binding: Paperback
• • ISBN-10: 1451488076
• • ISBN-13: 9781451488074