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Author Ashworth, Timothy

Title Paul's Necessary Sin : the Experience of Liberation
Published Florence : Taylor and Francis, 2006

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Description 1 online resource (272 pages)
Contents Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Acknowledgements; Bibliographical information; Introduction; Part One: Liberation; 1. A New Revelation; The source of action; A real change; A new awareness of sin; Absolution; God's way of acting; Conclusion; 2. Faith's New Way of Listening; The prophetic word of God; How the Spirit comes; Faith's 'heard thing'; Conclusion; 3. The Freedom of Obedience; 'Straight-line thinking': translating stoicheĊ; 'Keeping to the straight and narrow' translating stoicheia; No place for religious law; Conclusion; 4. Childhood under Law
'The law' does not equal 'the Torah'Why then the law?; Conclusion; Part Two: The Exposure of Sin; 5. Childhood and Sin; Adam, Eve and sin; The knowledge of good and evil; Conclusion; 6. Sin and Flesh; Flesh; Condemned to mortality; set free to do right; Conclusion; Part Three: From Childhood to Adulthood; 7. Infants in Christ; The 'alive-making' Spirit; In Christ; reversing the fall; The 'first instalment' of the Spirit; Conclusion; 8. Coming of Age; The 'end' of childhood; A universal inheritance; Conclusion; 9. The Inheritance; Identified with creation
Exchanging the truth of God for the lieThe reconciliation of Spirit and flesh; Conclusion; Part Four: The Source of Freedom; 10. God's Outcast: the Transformation of Jesus; The one right action; The faith of Jesus; The accursed death of the Christ; Conclusion; 11. God's Fools: the Transformation of a Few; Arriving early at adulthood; The foolishness of the apostles; The ministry of reconciliation; Conclusion; 12. Seeing is Becoming: the Transformation of All; The new covenant; A new creation; the image of God; Becoming the revelation of God; Conclusion; Conclusion
Index of Greek words discussedIndex of key passages discussed; Index of subjects
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Form Electronic book
Author Ashworth, Timothy
ISBN 9781351912501
135191250X