Paul's Anthropology and Human Flourishing
The Rev. Dr. Susan Eastman
Associate Research Professor of New Testament, Duke Divinity School
May 5, 2019
The book Our Bodies, Our Selves by Angela Phillips, Boston Women's Health Book Collective, and Jill Rakusen was mentioned.
Paul's participatory anthropology
- Bodies are a bridge,
- not a barrier.
- Christ's embodiment
"Mis-embodiment"
Communication and Connection
"You have died to the law through the body of Christ" (Romans 7:4)
"Who will deliver me from this body of death?" (Romans 7:24)
"We know this, that our old self was co-crucified, in order that the body of sin might be done away with, that we might no longer be enslaved to sin." (Romans 6:6)
"Now you are the body of Christ and individually members of it." (1 Corinthians 12:27)
God made the One who knew no sin to be sin on our behalf, that in Him we might become the righteousness of God. (2 Corinthians 5:20)
"a whole way speaking, of presenting and 'uttering' the self, that presupposes relation as the ground that gives the self room to exist, a relation developing in time, a relastion with an agency which addresses or summons the self, but is in itself no part of the system of interacting and negotiating speakers in the world."
You are members of one another
For more details, see:
Susan Grove Eastman, Paul and the Person: Reframing Paul's Anthropology (Eerdmans, 2017)