How did Paul understand time? Standard interpretations are that Paul modified his inherited Jewish apocalyptic sequential two-age temporality.
The book includes a foreword by John Barclay..
Scholars and students will profit from this lively contribution to Pauline studies, which offers big-picture proposals based on detailed work with Paul\'s letters.
It is less important to those in Christ than it is for creation, for those joined to the One over whom death has no dominion are already released from bondage to corruption.
Living Christ\'s time also changes the significance of the eschaton.
While in the present evil age these are instruments purposed for destruction, in Christ they are transformed in service of God\'s life.
Living Christ\'s time transforms believers\' suffering, sinning, and physical dying.
Jervis points out that union with Christ has significant temporal implications.
Her inquiry is motivated and informed by the long-standing recognition of the centrality of union with Christ for Paul.
In clear writing, Jervis engages both philosophical and traditional biblical understandings of time.
Those joined to Christ live Christ\'s Temporality while also living chronological time.
However, this is not a changeless now but a now in which change occurs (though not in the way that human chronological time perceives change).
The past is in their present, as is the future.
Their Temporality is tensed, but the tenses are nonsequential.
Christ\'s temporality, like God\'s, is time in which change occurs--at least between Christ and God and creation.
Humans apart from Christ live in this age, whereas believers live entirely in the Temporality of Christ.
In this groundbreaking book, Ann Jervis instead proposes that Paul thought not in terms of two ages but in terms of Life in this age or Life in Christ.
Believers live in already-not yet temporality.
Paul solved the conundrum of Christ\'s resurrection occurring without the resurrection of the righteous by asserting that the ages are not sequential but rather that they overlap.
How did Paul understand time? Standard interpretations are that Paul modified his inherited Jewish apocalyptic sequential two-age temporality
