Sacrifice, Brotherhood, and the Body - Abraham and the Nations in Romans

In this book, Patrick McMurray argues that Paul invokes sacrifice in Romans 12:1 to construct a new brotherhood with Christ and therefore gentile membership of Abraham's lineage as brothers alongside the Israelites. God's promise, requiring ethnic plurality, is thereby fulfilled, and their consequent spiritual transformation also fulfills the law.

List of contents

Introduction: Rereading Paul's Use of Sacrificial Language in Romans
Chapter 1: Theorizing Sacrifice
Chapter 2: Misguided Gentile Cult (Romans 1)
Chapter 3: Is Jesus' Death Sacrificial in Romans? (Romans 3:25; Romans 8:3)
Chapter 4: Ethnic Categories, Family Membership and Kinship in Romans (Romans 1, 3, 4, 8, 9-11, 15)
Chapter 5: Paul's Eschatological Asceticism and the Construction of Kinship (Romans 6-8)
Chapter 6: Brotherhood in the Spirit and Transformation (Romans 12 and 13)
Chapter 7: The Obedience of the Ethne, Sacrifice and Eschatology (Romans 15)
Conclusion: Sacrifice and Fulfilment

About the author

By Patrick McMurray

Product details

• Authors: Patrick McMurray, McMurray Patrick
• Publisher: Rowman and Littlefield
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.07.2021
• EAN: 9781978712782
• ISBN: 978-1-978712-78-2
• No. of pages: 280
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Religion/theology > Practical theology; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Religion: general, reference works; RELIGION / Theology, RELIGION / Biblical Studies / History & Culture, Theology, Christianity, Christian theology, RELIGION / Biblical Studies / New Testament / Paul's Letters, Biblical Studies & Exegesis, Criticism & Exegesis Of Sacred Texts