The Power of Images in PaulLiturgical Press, 2008 - 307 páginas In his letters to the early Christian communities, the apostle Paul left for Christians of all time an array of powerful images: from the pain of a thorn in the flesh to the tenderness of a nursing mother for her children, from the competition on an athletic field to the growth of an agricultural field. In The Power of Images in Paul, Raymond Collins explores how Paul uses the ordinary to describe what is extraordinary, how Paul skillfully uses a wide range of metaphors as a means of both persuasion and clarification. But this book is more than an analysis of Paul's images themselves. Collins also examines how Paul deliberately draws from secular as well as religious and biblical themes in order to draw a culturally diverse audience into relationship with Christ. Entering Paul's world with Collins, readers will better appreciate Paul's use of metaphor and, more important, be persuaded as was Paul's original audience of God's unfailing love in Christ. |
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The Letter to the Philippians | 40 |
The Letter to Philemon | 68 |
The Letter to the Galatians | 77 |
The First Letter to the Corinthians | 109 |
The Second Letter to the Corinthians | 150 |
The Letter to the Romans | 185 |
Pauls Use of Metaphor | 225 |
Epilogue | 262 |
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