If Sons, Then Heirs: A Study of Kinship and Ethnicity in the Letters of Paul. By Caroline Johnson Hodge
Caroline Hodge's thesis is that ‘Paul uses the discourse of kinship and ethnicity to construct a myth of origins for gentile followers of Christ’, relying on the logic of patrilineal descent to create a new lineage for Gentiles as descendants of Abraham through Christ (p. 5). This is largely in...
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| Format: | Electronic Review |
| Language: | English |
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2009
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The journal of theological studies
Year: 2009, Volume: 60, Issue: 2, Pages: 643-645 |
| Review of: | If sons, then heirs (Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2007) (Dunn, James D. G.)
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| Summary: | Caroline Hodge's thesis is that ‘Paul uses the discourse of kinship and ethnicity to construct a myth of origins for gentile followers of Christ’, relying on the logic of patrilineal descent to create a new lineage for Gentiles as descendants of Abraham through Christ (p. 5). This is largely in reaction to the more traditional view that Paul rejected a particularistic Judaism for an ethnicity-free Christianity., The central argument is that ethnic identity is inextricable from a people's standing before God (p. 43), and that contrary to a common line of thought drawn from Gal. 3:28, Paul does not reject an ethnic religion for a universal one; nor does he argue for a Christian identity of ethnic neutrality. |
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| ISSN: | 1477-4607 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: The journal of theological studies
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1093/jts/flp078 |